David Pitkin

I took my N800 to Puerto Rico this week. It worked out great, I was able to jump on open wifi and use GPRS all over the island. Once online I could check gmail, facebook, twitter, and forums all without lugging and opening up a laptop. It also was great for maps and navigation but that is a story in itself.

The highlights was making my first Gizmo call home when I had no mobile coverage. I did have wifi that worked best in the bathroom of all places in the room.

On the plane home I checked out the pictures I took with the N80 on the screen by popping the miniSD card into the n800. When I did not grab the N800 I used google mail, widsets and shozu on the N80, I continue to be impressed with the N80. If only the networks I use had 3G coverage and used the same frequency as Europe. . . The only camera I carried was my N80 which made it a truly mobile communication device providing calls, pictures, navigation, information and even sent a video up to youtube while standing there outside Castillo de San Felipe del Morro.

The only gripe is that the battery life could be better! This has always been the case but it really hurts when you are relying on it for so many things. It continues to be nice to only need one power adapter for most of my mobile devices the list of: N80, N800, BH-800 headset and LD-3W GPS all use the new 2.5mm Nokia jack so one car adapter for them all. I can’t wait for the CA-100 to ship so I can even suck power from any USB port ;)

First the requisite picture of all the stuff out of the box. Not pictured is a car charger with a new nokia style 2.5mm connector, just the one charger for the GPS and Tablet but I guess you can always run one on it’s battery while the other is charging.

It is really nice that now almost all my Nokia gear uses the exact same charger.

The Navicore software installer crashed under Vista, first time that happened to me. I then used a Windows XP machine to run the installer. You pick the locations (USA East, USA West, and Canada) and voices depending on how much of the included 2GB MiniSD card you want to fill up.

While that installer was copying a GB over USB I paired the LD-W3 GPS with my N80ie and started up the Nokia Maps app, it worked perfect! The GPS locked on fast and worked great even indoors.

The funniest thing I noticed is that the intersection on the Nokia box happens to be Route 2 and 495 which is about 10 miles from my house!

I am really excited to take this out on the road!