Programs for nokia n810

To access the App Manager, click on the Applications icon the green squares on the left , select Settings, then select Application Manager. Nokia's Internet Tablets run on a software platform called Maemo, which is based on the Linux operating system. The official website for the Maemo platform is at maemo.

On your tablet, click on the globe in the top left, open a new browser window and go to the site maemo. Click on the Downloads link at the top of the site, and it should automatically take you to the "OS " section which contains software that your N or N can run. Ignore the sections marked "OS " and "OS ", the software there will not run on your tablet. To find some interesting software, try clicking on one of the categories on the right of the screen.

Note that some categories contain many pages, and you should click on the page numbers at the bottom of the screen to see all the applications available in that category. When you find an app or game you're interested in, click on its title to find out more information and see reviews posted by users. If you want to install it, click on the green arrow next to its name.

Clicking on this arrow will automatically start up your tablet's App Manager, install the selected software onto the tablet, and add the catalogue it came from to the App Manager.

During the installation process, it will ask you where you want to put the application's icon in the Applications menu. By default it will put it in the section labelled "Extras", but you can change this if you want.

After the new catalogue is added to the App Manager, you will see a wider range of software available in the App Manager's "Browse Installable Applications" section.

If an app or game has a grey arrow instead of a green one, it means they can't be installed automatically. Because of this, their installation can be very complicated, and we're not going to cover it in this tutorial. The advantage of an open platform like Maemo or Windows, or Macintosh is that it receives a lot of software support from both enthusiasts and commercial companies because literally anyone is allowed to write and release software without having to get anyone's permission.

The disadvantage of this is that a small minority of software may do bad things, either intentionally or unintentionally. The only catalogues guaranteed to be free of problems are Nokia's, but these only have a small range of applications.

To install a wider range of software on your tablet you will have to install software from third party non-Nokia sources, and none of this third party software is guaranteed to be safe and reliable. Just like Windows and Macintosh, third party Maemo software carries a small risk of either causing problems or doing deliberate damage.

If you wish to reduce this risk to a minimum, try to only install software which has received good ratings and comments in maemo. It's worth pointing out that the risk of software causing deliberate damage is particularly small on Maemo and Nokia's internet tablets.

Almost all of the software available to the tablets is "open source". Open source software means that the inner workings of the software are freely available on the internet to anyone who wants to take a look, so anything that's dangerous or malevolent usually gets spotted much more quickly than on closed source software.

Catalogues make it very easy to install new software and keep it up to date, but they have a drawback: they're all hosted on various computers around the internet, and if one catalogue's computer breaks down it prevents the Application Manager from working properly.

If a catalogue does break down, you may see the error message "Unable to refresh list. Main article: Updating the firmware. Like many electronic devices, the Nokia N and N internet tablets have something called firmware which Nokia confusingly calls "software". Firmware is what tells the device how to behave, and includes all the applications you see when you first switch on a brand new tablet.

Electronics manufacturers often issue new versions of firmware which corrected mistakes and sometimes add new features. When you take an electronic gadget to a service centre, they will typically install updated firmware on it as this simple action can often solve many technical problems.

Nowadays you can also install the new firmware yourself at home using your PC. It's completely free, it usually makes your device run more reliably, and it also may let it do new stuff it couldn't do before. The downside of a firmware update is that you lose any data or programs you have installed on your gadget, though this can be dealt with by making backups of your data onto a memory card and then restoring the backups after the update. N users have a particularly good reason for updating their firmware, because Nokia has just released a brand new version of the tablet's operating system called OS OS is present on all Ns, but most Ns shipped with the older OS , so N owners probably have to update their firmware in order to use OS OS replaces OS and makes all sorts of improvements such as greatly increasing the processor speed, more finger-friendly menus, a constantly updated directory of internet radio stations, better sound quality on Skype, better video quality on YouTube etc.

OS makes the N look and run exactly like the more recent N model, and run at the same speed too. To upgrade your N from OS to OS , simply follow the instructions below for doing a firmware update. The process of upgrading the OS is technically identical to the process of updating the firmware. Firmware updates usually wipe anything you store on the tablet's own memory, including e-mails, documents, music, videos, settings, bookmarks and contacts.

However, firmware updates do NOT wipe anything stored on memory cards including the N's 2 gigabyte built-in memory card, because they're technically not part of the tablet itself. Before you do a firmware update it's a good idea to back up your data and settings onto a memory card, so you can restore the data after the update is complete.

When you have finished the firmware update see below for how to do this , the tablet should ask you automatically if you want to restore your data and settings from the backup you just made. Doing so may cause serious problems with using the N after the update. If you can, try to back up your files manually by moving them onto a memory card using the N's file manager, as they will be safe on the card. There's nothing you can do about settings though.