The N810 arrived just in time for the long weekend to Breckenridge, CO and it was nice to have a new toy for the travel time. For me the big reason for getting it was to replace my old Zaurus SL5500 which kept track of appointments, contacts and music. Anyone that read reviews for the N810 will note it’s not marketed as a device for managing contacts and appointments but it is open source and their are a large number of apps available…. so I wasn’t concerned. That was actually part of the reason for getting it, to take advantage of the ongoing development.

My first try at playing music was a dud, which was disapointing on the plane ride out of town. But I will say it’s my own fault. I ripped some CD’s to WAV, assuming it was supported and didn’t verify before I left. Now the reason I chose WAV is OGG wasn’t supported and I didn’t have the codec for MP3. But I found some time at the airport on the trip back to load SoundConverter and the instructions for MP3. I was then able to convert my WAV files to MP3. The default music player is decent but it will be nice to see what else is out there.

Since then I’ve loaded some additional apps like GPE for contacts and calendar and SSH. I also loaded Pidgin all of which can be found from http://www.gronmayer.com/it/, third party repos for the 770, 800 and 810. Up next will be the GPS.