Diablo for Nokia N810 is HOT!
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I’ve actually been running earlier versions of the newly released Diablo firmware for the Nokia N810 Internet tablet, which was recently released to the public. The nice thing that this firmware release has is automatic updating!
Much like with Windows Update in some configurations, the tablet will show a blinking exclamation point icon along the top. This will let you know when newer versions of applications are available as well as Operating System-level updates. You can easily update everything in one fell swoop, OS and applications.
In fact, that’s exactly what I did today. I was a couple of builds behind what was released. I noticed the blinking exclamation point and upgraded all my applications and OS2008 itself to the most current release. A reboot later, the system was up. An in-place upgrade. No application reinstall. It just worked. Quite cool!
Unfortunately, to get the current release, if you weren’t on a pre-release version like I was, you have to reflash your device just like before. However, the “restore” process after the reflash is pretty flawless, in my experience. All my application repositories and selections were maintained across this upgrade, which took a while because of all the downloading, but when it was done,my device was basically the way it was before the upgrade.
I could complain a bit about the Email client included, which has been improved, but doesn’t work all that well with Gmail, particularly when I try and move stuff to the Spam folder. Whether that’s the app’s problem or it’s Gmail problem is hard to say.
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Tags: internet tablet, linux, nokia n810, os2008 Fnord
Comment by Jonathan Greene
the latest update to Modest works really well with my Gmail IMAP account. I don’t bother marking or moving to spam, I just delete from the tablet. I did just discover that it is possible to turn imags on for a much richer html mail experience as well which is killer.
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Comment by PhoneBoy
Yeah, but I’d rather tell Google about the SPAM.
Comment by Eric
I know GrandCentral sucks, but have you checked out the GC Dialer application for the Nokia? I’m one of the devs and it’s made the whole GC thing suck less
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Comment by PhoneBoy
@Eric I didn’t know such a client existed for the Internet Tablets, I’ll have to check it out!
Comment by John Callahan
Email sure has it’s problems – I left my N800 at 51-3 and put Diablo on the N810 just because of email POP/IMAP flakiness with Gmail but otherwise Diablo is a nice step up.
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Comment by Eric
Small followup… the grandcentral app has been renamed DialCentral and it’s in Diablo and Chinook Extras for easy install. Callback dialing, contacts, recent calls, and changing the callback number are all working great.