I hope you all like the reference to Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin. It has absolutely nothing to do with the remainder of this post.

Howdy! It has been quite some time since I last made any updates to this blog. The reason? Utter and complete failure in the Nokia Tablet Experiment. Although I was able to make phone calls via my Nokia tablet, there were insurmountable problems that plagued the setup of the system. The biggest problems were due to the ways the university implements their networks and their wifi.

Here are some screen shots to assuage your curiosity and give you an idea of what this nifty little device can do. Keep in mind that somethings may be blurred out to protect sensitive information of others and myself.

Here is the main page of the tablet. As you can see, there are a number of widgets that are both pre-installed on the machine and that can be download from the maemo.org website:

First post made from the Nokia N810. This is an incredible little machine. It has far exceeded my expectations. I have already installed the Gizmo SIP application (I learned that it integrates with Google Voice by design, making it the clearer choice over Skype). I can receive calls on the tablet, albeit with some work arounds. Hopefully I will have these cleared up soon. I will post a more thorough step by step review in the next few days (on a larger keyboard). For now, let us leave it at how amazing this little machine is: mind-boggling amazingness. Adios until next time.

Some may be wondering what The Nokia Tablet Experiment is, or why my wife and I have decided to embark on it. So, let me explain.

First, the reasoning. My wife and I are poor college students. We currently have a family cellphone plan for the two of us with a major mobile phone provider which has recently expired. We are paying month to month now until we can find a new solution or decide to renew our contract for another two years. As we have been crunching the numbers for the budget lately we have noticed that our phone plan (the cheapest one the provider offers) was adding up to about $1000 per year! This is with a 14% DISCOUNT tacked on that we received as a promotion! That is money that could go towards tuition, books for classes, dates consisting of more than a walk to the park and a shared $1.50 ice cream cone, etc.. We have shopped around at other mobile phone carriers and the price is comparable. At most we could save a couple dollars per month.