Testing email posting

This is my first email post, and I just thought I should say happy Christmas to any readers out there!

Portable technology I didn't know existed

I am typing this on a Nokia N770 Tablet in my Kitchen. The device is connected by Wifi to my home network, and the keyboard I am using is an iGo Stowaway I bought on ebay for 39 pounds sterling. You'll notice I didn't use a pound sign - that's a flaw I currently have with my techno setup. However, I digress into the world of needing keyboard drivers another time.

This keyboard connects to the tablet via bluetooth, and provides me with a complete touch typing experience on a 4" handheld device.

Speedwise, the N770 has what would be considered a paltry 250MHz ARM926 processor. The thing that will amaze and shock all of you techno-petrol heads is that the experience of surfing the web and typing on this is comparable to doing the same on any other device I own with a keyboard. The experience is certainly superior in almost every way to that which I have typing on my Psion Series 5. It is a somewhat hunched experience, having to get in close to what is quite a high resolution screen for such a small size - proportionally, I think the pixels are smaller on this screen than on any computer monitor, making it harder to see what one is writing.

I have found that adding a 1GB RS-MMC card to the tablet affords me the luxury of doubling the amount of memmory the device has to 128MB. This means more applications can be opened and swapped onto the memory card.

Overall, I am able to do most of things I can on any other computer, and I can fit both keyboard and tablet into a coat pocket with room to spare.

Next time, I will talk about my experiences with the Samsung ST1000 GPS/Wifi/Bluetooth touch screen, gesture driven all singing all dancing camera.