In Tablets of Silicon

Starting the day with the BBC. A genuine taste of England piped to the bedside..

Turn the pages on a Sherlock Holmes adventure, whiling away the minutes on the bus.

Scribbling notes, composing mails and writing blogs..

Showing off the latest pictures of the boat. Flick through the music and choose what to play...


I've bought this new computer thing.. A Nokia N810 (don't tell the boss). Not a phone, but a tablet PC - a genuinely pocket sized computer which unlike my BIG PC doesn't take ten minutes to boot (which makes it eminently useable).

I like the flexibility, and the real-audio internet radio (for the Beeb), the offline blog editor, and even the ebook reader. Smaller than a paperback but room for a complete library :-) And with Pidgin loaded all those chat messages come to one place on the coffee table. 'Pling' - is that you?

Of course I could use it for MP3s but I have the phone for that but it is the new remote for my music server ;-)

As for the practicalities? WiFi is a whizz.. and coupling up on the move works well via bluetooth to the phone.
The keyboard - is OK. Thumbing is not as quick as the real thing.. But the screen is much more practical for surfing on the move than my mobile even if it does get a bit hard work on pages with a lot of content - like Facebook!
Still, as a window on the web it has a lot going for it... Time to open the curtains?