Feb 24, 2008

Lost Without The N810

Yes that header pretty much describes my situation. The N810 has been a life saver for me. As a student, an intern, a blogger, a writer, a gadget-lover, I pretty much have zero free seconds during the course of a day: there's always something to do. Since the N810 arrived, I've had a series of derangements in my daily schedule: between the laptop charger that went dead for a week, the frequent electricity blackouts and the courses re-scheduling that left me at uni for hours with nothing to do, you can pretty much see how my usually organized life became a mess in no time.

You can not think of how many times I thanked God that the N810 was here to save me from these situations. But most importantly, the N810 has been invaluable for me in one particular aspect: my thesis.

I am preparing a thesis for my pharmacy diploma this year. It's about the applications of biotechnologies in the medical sciences field. This involves a LOT of information checking, web surfing, writing, analyzing and the likes. But the most important aspect of it is article reading. We usually have one source for our articles: Pubmed, and 99% if not 100% of all articles are found in pdf format.

Now normally, I would be stuck in front of my computer endlessly; normally, I would be totting my laptop around everywhere I go to keep working on the thesis. Not when the N810 is around. I am capable of putting a huge amount of books in pdf format, as well as all my articles (and saved web pages) on one device, and carrying it with me. I can read while lying in bed, while waiting for my bread to toast or while boiling my milk in the morning.

One particular thing I have been highly enjoying though, is going walking. Sports were an essential part of my life, until I got tendinitis and my schedules became hectic. Enter the N810. Ever since I got it and found out that there was a built-in PDF reader in it, I knew that I would use it to bring back exercise into my life. I now go in the morning and do slow'ish (my foot still hurts) but steady walks of around 3 hours, while reading my medical articles. PDF Reader in full screen mode on the 4.13" beauty is nothing short of the desktop Adobe experience. The transflective screen makes it also a lot easier to use the device outside when it's sunny. Plus it's small and light and easy to carry on, especially by using the built-in stand to hold the device, something I found myself doing unconsciously just to find that ThoughtFix thought of it too.

I also use the Notes program to write down excerpts and thoughts following each article, which I then send to my PC, open and copy paste into my thesis.doc file. If I need some explanation of a medical term, I open Garnet VM and use my medical dictionaries in Mobipocket to check it out.

If that's not productive mobility, I don't know what is!

10 comments:

  1. Sounds like you were pretty impressed by the N810 then? (^_-)

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  2. Impressed by many areas, disappointed by others. Overall, I think the IT is a device that I would love to have now, that I need now, but that I MUST have in 1-2 yrs when it's better developed and raising up to its potential. I've got a lot of posts about it, to go on Tablet-Guru, but as you see, I'm busy with my thesis now, though I will keep covering tablet-related things on T-G even when the N810 is gone home

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  3. Nice Rita; tech is only relevant when its personal. I totally agree with your assertions about the UI/UX though with it. There are plenty of rough edges that just aren't nice for those of us who look at the IT as a device to just get things done. Hopefully, the next OS upgrades will make considerable strides in this area, and then developers can really go out and have fun making things that keep us mobile yet productive.

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  4. Is N810 is available in lebanon. i am living in saudi arabia but i cant find it here. Any suggestion how to get it here. i want one now not after few months.

    Thanks
    Rashid

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  5. Rashid, the only way to do it that I know of is to buy it from Amazon and have it shipped to Saudi Arabia. Another way is to see if you have relatives overseas coming back soon and ask them to buy it for you and bring it with them... Lol I know, not that practical as a solution, but a gadget-lover's gotta do what a gadget-lover's gotta do ;)

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  6. Thanks Rita that solution was already in my mind to ask some one who is coming from US or UK. I just want to know will it be available in middeleast in future or nokia have no plans to bring it in middeleast.

    Thanks
    Rashid

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  7. Nokia's main target with the tablets so far has been the US markets, they have started marketing them more in the Europe, but I guess the Middle East is still a bit behind. I for one have never seen an Internet Tablet in Lebanon except when I received my trial unit.

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  8. JJ, yeah funny fact, we have a habit of boiling the milk, we don't drink it cold, although I prefer it cold myself.

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  9. I hope you never down to review about symbian application. I like symbian software 1st edition exactly...
    Thank You...

    by Toni (http://deltasymbian.blogspot.com)

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