"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in
news:ZLROj.31637$zw1.14963@fe111.usenetserver.com:

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> "Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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>> Now, now....be nice, Todd.....
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http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...rnet_Devices/p
>> roduc tdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0973567
>> N800's UNDER $200 from Dell! Way cool....(c;
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> I hope you get a commission- they're sold out! ;-)
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Thanks for the info. Some friends here wanted one. Hope Dell gets some
more to sell at this price point.

I paid $198 for mine after accepting a branded Chase credit card for a
$50 discount when I got mine. Google Checkout also had a deal, too.

It's still a great price for a great little computer.

Today, the maemo hackers posted a new FLAC audio codec for us, which
works great! I can now play all my FLAC audio on the tablet, and with
two 16GB SDHC cards have plenty of room to store FLAC-encoded music.

This has been a great week on the tablet. I downloaded the new
"Minefield" and "Fennec" alpha versions of Firefox 3 browser, which
benchmark tests show runs Javascript tests 5.9X as fast as the default
mozilla browser that comes on OS2008, the upgraded N810 Maemo Linux I
switched to with the PC-based system blaster. I'm watching BBC News on
Firefox 3 as I'm typing this on the PC. There are still many issues
like the switching from normal to full screen that need some more
polishing and debugging, but, hey, it's alpha software and we're all
part of the reporting system at Mozilla to make it what the users want.

The Firefox 3 port is made for the N810 with the slideout keyboard. It,
so far but I think that will change, doesn't support popping up the
stylus keyboard on the N800, but that doesn't really matter because it
works great with the Bluetooth external folding keyboard I carry around
for text entry, anyways. I type URLs much better on real keys...(c;

I've been playing wtih a cracked iPhone that belongs to a guy that works
at Circuit City and we've been comparing notes. Crayon Physics is a
game he has on his iPhone and someone ported it to the Maemo OS as
Numpty Physics. They run almost the same on both, but the double
resolution of the N800 and the accuracy of the stylus touchscreen runs
all over the iPhone version as I can draw fine lines under objects I
want to lever up much more accurately. The tablet not involved in
running simultaneous phone software is much smoother on games, too.

I'm still exploring all the stuff I can do with the new USB Control app.
So far, I've run my USB hard drives, HP printer, my Staples USB hub,
etc. in Host mode. I can now connect to non-Bluetooth printers.

Hope you find an under $200 tablet soon enough. Do you know anything
about how to program TI programmable scientific calculators? TIEMU for
the tablet supports TI calc models V200PLT, TI89t, TI89 and TI92+.
These are .img files that run under Flash 9 from memory and I think
after I learn now to program the calc language I can use them for
navigation. The thing does calculus and graphing on its virtual screen.

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