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Orb's solution to stream digital media stored on a home computer to a mobile device is now available for Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet. The content is accessed through the Web browser on the handheld.

With Orb MyCasting users can, for example, access photos, videos, music, and even TV, anywhere—as long as the N800 is connected to the Internet. It also enables users to remotely record TV programs using Orb's Digital Video Recorder (DVR) function and then play back those recorded programs on the Nokia device.

"The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet was developed to make it easy for people to access their favorite internet sites, content, and entertainment from the couch, airport or coffee shop- anywhere there is WiFi. Orb's MyCasting is an excellent use of the device making it a jukebox of personal media," according to Nokia VP of convergence products Ari Virtanen.

Orb's MysCasting is free to N800 users.

More on N800
With the N800 ($400), Nokia brings its Internet Tablets under the umbrella of its NSeries, which, until now, only included smartphones.

As with the earlier 770, the N800 eschews any sort of cellular-wireless connectivity for Wi-Fi 802.11b/g. This thing is definitely more PDA than smartphone. It is a handheld, however, that's designed for messaging, Web access, and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling from a hot spot or Wi-Fi connection in the home or office. You can also leverage a wireless hookup to a Bluetooth-enabled phone to connect to the Internet.

Nokia adds a camera and full-screen finger QWERTY keyboard to the N800. In addition to Google's gTalk for VoIP calling, available with the previous model, Nokia has struck a deal to enable Skype service on the N800 as well.

Sleeker looking and thinner (0.5 inches) than the N770, the N800 has the same-size 4.1-inch, 800 x 480 pixel and 65,536 color resolution display.

Inside is a 320MHz processor, 256MB of Flash ROM, and 128MB of RAM. There are two SD card slots for memory expansion, stereo speakers, a slot for the bundled stereo headset, and support for the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol to more easily connect to compatible TVs, audio systems and PCs.

The battery rates for only up to 3.5 hours browsing time and up to 12 days standby.

It also includes the Opera browser, Flash 7, a media player, an RSS reader, e-mail, instant messaging, handwriting recognition, Internet radio, a PDF viewer, file manager, notes, calculator, among other additional applications.