Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

Productivity apps, Content creation, Business apps. Those are also apps that are suitable to be implemented with a 'more accurate' (smaller contact area) resistive screen with a stylus.

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

I want TI's Omap4 SoC.

oh, and a six inch screen with a 960x540 resolution.

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

7 inch would be better with 1024x600

if the ti omap is the same arm cortex a-9 then I agree. Dual core would be better.

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

1024x600 is a good minimum desktop resolution, but it is rubbish for media.
960x540 is key to Apples iFrame, will probably be used in the next iPhone, as is exactly one quarter of full-HD.

yes, Omap4 uses two Arm Cortex A9 cpu's

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

How is 960x540 better than 1024x600 or am I reading something wrong.

Either way nokia needs to come out with something very good and very soon and very cheap to compete with the ipad.

If not the ipad will monopolize the market like they did with the ipod.

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

While Nokia drastically needs 1. I think they're working on the 2nd. If QT compatibility works like it's suppose too then theoretically you could start and run an app using the same QT libraries from any other system using those same QT libraries (QT apps from the desktop/laptop, QT apps from Maemo, QT apps from Meego, QT apps from Symbian, etc.)

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

Yes, apps are one thing. I believe the major moves that Nokia has pulled (QT, opensourcing symbian, alliance with intel) are definitely the steps in the right direction; but it seems to me that true positive effects won't be seen for at least another year.

But there are kinds of contents out there that helps to sell handheld devices: ebooks, music, movies & tv content, etc... let's see how Nokia address those.

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

couldn't they partner up with amazon for ebooks/magazines. the music i guess they could do nokia music, or amazon music also.
and content wise if it shipped with free ovi maps it would help sell some tablets.

just ensure that most if not all meego apps work with it and it'll be a start.

edit, make sure it ships with a browser that has working flash and works with hulu and use that as an advantage over the ipad

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

None of this wishful thinking is worth a glowing green amorphous flying snot if Nokia doesn't provide support (parts, service contracts, ON-SITE SERVICE or at LEAST Nokia branded service kiosks all over the countries where they sell it, etc). It'll be yet another 'step 1' device trying to play the beta to a far-flung final product yet again whereas a lot of Nokia's competitors aren't playing this 'step 1' device shuffle-dance around bothering to support customers and truly push a product and still manage to stay well ahead of Nokia in terms of getting their stuff out there, used and PURCHASED.

Hell.. people are STILL complaining about stylus availability, for crying out loud. Heheh

Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor
 

Good point. I would certainly want to be taking hand written notes and doing occasional word processing and spreadsheet work. Although it remains to be seen how well this will work with that form factor plus an onscreen keyboard (or plus an external keyboard, for that matter, although I'd rather not get one if I don't have to).