The Internet Tablet is now more affordable than ever

Jul 21, 2008 11:30 GMT  ·  By

Nokia's good-to-have-around N810 Internet Tablet, released in the fall of 2007, is now cheaper than ever, coming for a retail price of only $299. Although the new price is not (yet) featured on Nokia's official website (where the Internet Tablet is still offered for $439), the N810 can be bought for the attractive $299 price from CompUSA, a well-known online retailer.

This price drop is probably explained by the upcoming availability of the WiMAX edition of N810 as well as by the release of Apple's new iPhone 3G, offered by AT&T for as little as $199 (with a two-year contract agreement and an expensive data plan, but still).

Although the N810 cannot be used as a normal cell phone, it comes with lots of cool and useful features: a 4.13 inch TFT touchscreen display with a wide 800 x 480 pixel resolution and support for 65K colors, Wi-Fi, built-in GPS, Nokia Maps, a full sliding QWERTY keyboard, Mozilla-based Web browser with Adobe Flash 9 support, RSS reader, Music and Video player, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, stereo speakers with a high sound quality, a VGA web camera, PDF reader, embedded games, ambient light sensor, "touchscreen lock" key, backup and restore capabilities, USB, 128MB of DDRAM, 256MB of Flash memory, a 400Mhz TI OMAP 2420 processor, 2GB of internal memory and support for microSD or microSDHC cards of up to 8GB.

Measuring 72 x 128 x 14 millimeters (2.83 x 5.03 x 0.55 inches) and weighing 226 grams (7.97 ounces), the N810 packs a BP-4L battery that can provide a continuous Wi-Fi usage of up to 4 hours, a maximum music playback time of 10 hours and a stand-by time of up to 14 days.