Reverting Back To OS2007

Don’t get me wrong, OS2008 is good, very good in fact. But its plagued with problems that are likely to take Nokia at least a couple more updates to fix. Whilst my N800 is attempting to be my main computer I can’t really rely on a flaky OS. All the same OS2008 is a visual feast and the additional performance of the CPU speed boost is most welcome.

Problems I’ve found are (in order of severity): locking the screen and keyboard doesn’t kill the display which negatively impacts on battery life, a large amount of third party software remains unconverted, Chinook repositories appear to be broken which means that some apps that are available can’t be installed and finally the new home screen can’t be easily used as the applets get dragged around when you don’t want them to and don’t when you do.

The big plus points are the new browser (very slick), new themes (likewise) and functional Youtube. All of which mean that you astound users of lesser devices with Maemo’s good looks and performance. Shame the processor speed boost can’t be maintained after downgrading back to OS2007 – which I’m currently in the middle of doing…

OS2008 Officially Available For N800

Nokia have made good on their promise to deliver the N800 upgrade to OS2008 before Christmas, with the files being made available through the Nokia Internet Tablet Update Wizard earlier today. Unfortunately it looks like every N800 owner is currently in the process of updating their operating system, so the server is massively overloaded. If you get as far as downloading the file you’ll be faced with a lengthy download, as data is transferring at 28k modem speeds at the moment…