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Orb makes YouTube work on the Nokia N800

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By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 11:18 PM


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Source: ThoughtFix

This is a partial solution … what happens when you want to view websites that embed YouTube videos? That’s the kicker for me.

Still waiting on Nokia to announce their working with Adobe to make Flash 9 work on the new N800. It’s a shame that the two things I love more than anything, Google Reader and YouTube, work so poorly on this internet tablet.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • lutzs

    Adobe offers Flash 9 Player as .RPM on their website. The N800 runs debian right? Go to a linux PC, convert the rpm with alien, and put the .deb on the N800 and maybe it works.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    lutzs: the released version is for a different architecture. x86 versus the TI OMAP.

  • lutzs

    oh sorry i missed this detail ; )

  • Trendy

    Hello all,
    I want to share my bad experience on nokia dot com Europe, trying to purchase the N800 :
    It’s the third order I am sending, as in the first two, my Gold credit card didn’t pass the financial test, now I sent another with another credit card, because I want to see if it’s a problem with my specific Gold card issue..
    Honestly, i strongly doubt that a card with several thousand euro plafond might be refused..
    Anyhow, I wish anyone who purchased or tried to do it at Nokia direct shop could share the experience, as I am quite frustrated!!!
    I start thinking that there’s something behind… Maybe they run out of item, or something else…
    Anyhow, I wanted first to aware anyone who might read, as it seems they don’t want to sell the N800 so easily…
    Maybe you need to deserve it????

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Trendy: why not try another credit card? that makes sense to me.

    I have two, and if that doesn’t work then I just call up my friend who also has a chase account, put the money in his account, and then he lets me use his credit card.

    then again i’ve known him for a decade so that’s how we trust each other so much.

  • Trendy

    Thank you stefan for your answer!
    Thta’s what I did yesterday, I order it for the third time with another credit card of mine.
    I’ll wait tomorrow, and see what is the answer..
    I forgot to say that I called the toll free call center about 5 times to get an explanation, and the answer was they were sorry, but the financial tool is out of their contol, so they apologize but don’t have an explanation!
    I also told them to call my bank…
    No clue, it’s since the 770 came out the I was waiting and now that is out I really want the N800 badly!!!
    I don’t know, i was hoping to find anyone that experienced the nokia direct service, and read his experience…

  • pointer

    hi trendy, have you purchased n800 successfully eventually? i met the same problem