nokia web tablet
Someone at netsight has just taken delivery of a nokia web tablet. It is a lovely gadget and we are all busy thinking up reasons to justify us all getting one. The screen is pretty amazing and having 800 pixel width means that most websites are very useable. It is running opera and I was pleased to see that my DOM-only javascripts (such as the menus on this site*) work fine. It also has a flash plugin (not sure what version or how good it is). It has built in wifi and bluetooth, and runs linux so the possibilities are endless. The downside is that it doesn’t have a hard drive, so using it as a video ipod substitute isn’t really an option unless RS-MMC cards suddenly get really hi-capacity and cheap.
* I’ve since done a better, less "obtrusive" version of the menu javascript similar to used on this site. It is on a clients site that isn’t launched yet, I may well hint in it’s general direction when it goes live.