Mirage OMNISAT v2 CC Center channel speaker Black

Mirage OMNISAT v2 CC Center channel speaker Black
Manufacturer: Mirage
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
video-shielded * frequency response 70-20,000 Hz (±3dB) * OMNIPOLAR technology creates a larger, more realistic soundstage * handles up to 175 watts * 3/4" tweeter, 3" midrange, dual 4-1/2" woofers * warranty: 5 years *

Average customer rating: 4.0

Connectivity Problems = USELESS
Simply GREAT
Handy Linux tablet
a disappointment
Convenient access to data

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Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC

Manufacturer: NOKIA
Product Group: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers
ASIN: B000MK4GGM
2007-01-29

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Product Description

Nokia N800 is designed to stay online so you can enjoy the benefits of the Internet, whether you're at home or on the go. Browse your favorite sites. Stay in touch with the people you love with Internet calling. Chat with your friends. Check your email. Relax with your favorite songs and videos.

Amazon.com Product Description

The sleek Nokia N800 Internet Tablet combines a truly personal Internet experience with easy wireless connections, high resolution display and support for a wide variety of Internet applications. Built to be constantly in use, you easily stay in touch with business associates, friends, and family thanks to its Internet calling, instant messaging and email connectivity. And with stereo audio, multimedia support and a new ergonomic design, the Nokia N800 morphs into a portable Internet entertainment device, enabling playback of streamed and downloaded content wherever you roam.

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<small><b>Stay connected to your world via the Web, streaming Internet radio, and the latest RSS news feeds.</b> <small></td></tr></table>The main form of connectivity is Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), and hooking up to a network is as simple as connecting with a laptop. You can also use the integrated Bluetooth wireless connectivity to hook up with a cell phone that is compatible with online data services. When connected to either a WLAN network or to a cell phone, you can make calls using the built-in Internet telephony application as well as conduct video conferencing with the built-in Web cam.

The N800 provides 256 MB of onboard flash memory and 128 MB of RAM. It also offers two expansion slots that are compatible with Secure Digital (SD), MultiMedia, miniSD, and microSD memory cards with a size limit of 2 GB. (Adapter required for miniSD and microSD.) You can also connect the N800 to a PC using the included USB cable to update software and transfer files from the PC to the a memory card. For multimedia playback, the N800 is compatible with MP3 and WMA digital audio files (as well as AAC, M3U, and WAV), Real Audio streams, and video files encoded as AVI or MPEG4. Additionally, with the UPnP media server functionality, you can share your music, video, and photos with others on the same Wi-Fi network. The N800 has two integrated speakers as well as a headphone jack for personal listening.

Access the web using the N800's Opera web browser, which provides Flash 7 multimedia support. Other applications include an RSS feed reader (for accessing all your favorite news sources), a PDF reader, image viewer, Internet radio player, and instant messenger with voice and video conferencing capabilities (using the Jabber and Google Talk services).

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<small><b>Chat with friends and business associates using built-in chat programs and easy-to-use onscreen keyboard.</b> <small></td></tr></table>The 4.1-inch touchscreen has an 800 x 400-pixel resolution with up to 65,536 colors. You can access controls with your fingers or use the included stylus, and the N800 provides intuitive handwriting recognition and a full-screen finger keyboard. The rechargable battery provides up to 10 days of standby time and up to 3 hours of continuous Web browsing or media playback. Other features include: <ul>

Integrated desk stand for on-table use

Zooming, full-screen and panning display functionality

Auto connection to saved Wi-Fi hotspots or through Bluetooth compatible phones

More applications: Clock, Sketch, Notes, Backup

Dimensions: 5.7 x 2.95 x 0.5 inches (WxHxD)

Weight: 7.27 ounces </ul>

<b>What's in the Box</b>
Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, stylus, battery (BP-5L), 128 MB miniSD memory card (with adapter), earphones, carrying case, travel charger, USB cable, Quick Start guide.

Customer Reviews:

Connectivity Problems = USELESS.......2007-06-09

I really wanted to like this. Its Flash and Opera browser allow me to log onto sites like my bank account and watch vids like on YouTube that I simply cannot do on my Windows Mobile 5 phone. I love the ability to stream Rhapsody , the maipulation of web pages (full screen and zoom) plus the handling of pdfs. BUT I can only enjoy these perks...at HOME where it connects to my wi-fi service. Outside of home it just will not conect to anything, nothing.

It will not use my cell phone's modem successfully (HTC 8525/AT&T network), and it connects to open wi-fi networks but when I try to go open a web page, it gives me a network connection error (red dot that turns green remains red).

So basically, it's a tease to me. I love the idea of traveling with this instead of popping open my $2,800 Mac, especially in certain places. But due to it's lack of ability to connect and no maemo (very un-user friendly) solutions, it's plain useless. I plan to return it.

Simply GREAT.......2007-05-24

Just two word: simply GREAT.
The device let you do almost everything that could be done with a pc; expecially if you have the possibility to ssh into a pc, the few times that it can not provide (only 330 Mhz processor) the adeguate software application or harware is insufficient.
Clearly is not confortable as a laptop if you compare the keyboad and the screen, but it's built in great way that allow to have a decent web-surfing or emailing or media streaming or document visualizing or gaming or (video) voip-phoning.
The maemo project, moreover, provide a lot of usefull sotware.
You'll be amazed thinking how much things can be done with this small and light object that confortably fits in your pocket.

Handy Linux tablet.......2007-05-17

Pleased with the quality of engineering. Battery life is about 3 hours of active use. Screen resolution is excellent (800x480). Well designed button functionality with a minimum of buttons.

I plan on using it on trip to Italy this summer for keeping in touch via email since the wireless standard is the same (unlike phone standards and prices) and most hotels have free wireless.

Having a little trouble getting scratchbox and maemo installed to do s/w development on one of my Linux workstations...

Finally got the upgrade to work. It kept telling my the time was not synchronized; I had turned DLS off on the PC - turning that back on fixed it and allowed the install. Only took about 5 minutes, even though the install app warned me it would take over 20.

a disappointment.......2007-05-15

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before purchasing this device, i read the reviews here at amazon and was impressed, my experience was very different than others, though.

i got my device and turned it on, carefully following the one page of documentation which accompanied the purchase. after charging, the device powered on and i attempted to connect it to my wifi router. it would not connect to the wep secured network, so i tried the free one. the device showed connected but no web page returned. after several frustrating tries, i finally got the device to agree that it had connected to my router. the router, however, did not recognize it.

the device information on the network asserted it was connected and showed traffic sent, though none received. i thought it might be a wep problem, though the device also could not display the wifi network in the building which is accessed with a username and password. unfortunately, i did not have 24/7 to spend on this device, so a couple of days later i took it out into the world to see what other networks said was going on, all four of them gave the same frustrating feedback "network problem" and nothing else.

i then decided that, perhaps, i needed the latest copy of the operating system, so downloaded the installation tool from nokia's website. i tried to run it on my windows xp machine, but the tool wouldn't install the latest operating system on the n800 because my windows time had not been synched to a time server! why is this an issue? well, microsoft is trying to get control of everyone's computer who is running windows, so they developed a tool which they called "windows genuine advantage" which requires that you register all of your personal information with microsoft as well as give them permission to get into your computer any time they want. don't worry they won't ever, never, no matter what, share this information with anyone, ever. unless their policies change, or they really need to, or it is to their advantage some how to do so, or some other reason they may regard as sufficent in the future. i opted out of that bs a long time ago, but microsoft, in an effort to make everyone install this tool on their registered copy of windows, made certain updates to their operating system dependent on it, among them the one which implemented the latest silly daylight savings time changes (and you thought your congressman was doing it for your benefit) which is required before the time servers microsoft uses in their windows tool will synchronize your time, which is trivial anyway. i suspect, though i do not know, that this is a way that microsoft is going to attempt to force its customers to open their proprietary information to microsoft (who will never, ever, misuse it, honest). Otherwise what could the author of this tool possibly have in mind to assure that the time on the host, not the n800 was synched? and even on this device itself, why must the time be synched to update the operating system.

(Don't worry, if you have automatic updates on, your compuuter is already bearing its soul to microsoft, unless you specifically opted to not install it before you turned on automatic updates. oh, yeah, and unless you have windows vista.)

updating your operating system on linux bypasses this.

What, unlike me you don't have several computers laying around your house running different operating systems? if you can answer that question accurately " no ". the n800 device may not be for you.

after crossing this hurdle, i finally got the operating system updated, but the problem still occurs. there is no real debug tool, like ipconfig, or one of the network tools commonly used to troubleshoot network difficulties, and the device itself has no relevant error messages "network problem" isn't all that informative, though, to be fair, it may be all that the device is able to understand about what is going on. given that it asserts it is using a "link-local" ip address, i suspsect there is some difficulty with the dhcp client either in the software or hardware, but with the deficient tools which came with this device, who could know? right now i'm probably going to return it for a refund, i have a really bad taste in my mouth with nokia over this one. (A previous experience several years back with a mobile phone was equally unrewarding).

Caveat emptor.

Convenient access to data.......2007-05-15

The Nokia n800 is a great replacement for my previous PDA, and is surprisingly good at displaying video, books of all formats, and other data.

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