[maemo-developers] If I buy a N800 but not N810

[From: Laurent GUERBY]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:06 +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ext Tuomas Kulve wrote:
> > Bin Chen wrote:
> >> The N800 is much cheaper than N810, I don't have much money to buy
> >> N810, so I wander if I buy a N800, can I run most features of maemo?
> >> In the other words, can N800 be same as N810 on maemo platform? Which
> >> is the difference besides the speed?
> > 
> > The speed is the same. The software is the same.
> > 
> > The n800 is missing qwerty keyboard and the GPS. Otherwise the are
> > pretty same. N800 can even use bluetooth GPS devices and keyboards.
> > 
> > N810 has an integrated internal 2GB "mmc" and one mini SD slot where the
> > n800 has two full sized MMC/SD slots.
> 
> N810 screen is also slightly better in direct sunlight than the N800
> one.  N810 is lacking the FM receiver that N800 has.

Another difference :

N800 has mini-USB for which plenty of small adapters exist so it's
easy to plug an USB key in host mode and carry the small adapter around.

N810 has micro-USB which is a "newer" standard which has only one 1
meter cable to USB male and that's it worldwide: nothing you can carry
easily in you purse to get access to the USB world.

I really wonder what's going on in the micro-USB world, is there
a patent vampire somewhere asking for huge fees?

Laurent