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I can't say for sure, but Googling on "beans waffle" did turn up this. I expect it is a cultural thing, but the recipe appears to lead nowhere pleasant. On the plus side though, ingredient #6 made me giggle--perhaps even titter--and I don't think Terry Pratchett is entirely to blame.

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having a baby monitor using the NITs could also be beneficial due to the two way communication thats possible, but I would certainly be leaving an older device near the bed especially as they get adventerous, i'm not sure my n810 would cope with being a teething ring.

EIPI,

your team will build everything to spec :)
i'm glad you responded, this was not meant as technical at all, and your idea/followon was exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in.

Its just a mental exercise.

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I would love to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a Maemo device with supported drivers like Nokia do with S60 phones but retain the form factor of the N810 + 1 or two extras like so

- Omap35xx -3d acceleration
- 256 Mb Ram
- Full size SD
- BT/Infrared/Wifi/Triband HSDPA/Wimax or any other 4G technology
- 5MP camera with Xenon flash
- VGA out @1024x768 or at least TV out
- A-GPS
- BT profiles supporting mouse and keyboard
- .5 mm thinner than the N810.
- gaming standard d-pad

dual bootable into Ubuntu or Maemo.
Hire 50 programmers to take the cream of the crop OS software out there and completely hildonize for use on the tablets. Five teams of 10 people.

Sell the device at $400
This device would effectively kill the need for a laptop, mobile phone, UMPC, MID, desktop (apart from workstation uses) digital point and shoot, personal media player.


edit:

I don't have the imagination to envision crazy new software paradigms. I guess what I am trying to say is I am fairly happy with Maemo and the software that is out there right now, I think more powerful hardware is really whats needed to take advantage. I also like the idea of taking something like liqbase and throwing 20 properly organized programmers at it to see what could happen in a month or two.

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benny1967 & mobiledivide: Yeah, but what specific, cool stuff would you do with all of that hardware? Playing games and media or taking pictures isn't particularly cool.

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This second part, having your notes and jottings and sketches updated onto the cloud shouldn't be that hard though? A site with an account, and then some functionality added to liqbase or maemopad+ to just upload anything new whenever they find an internet connection. Of course, someone needs to be build and host the site, and come up with a standardized format for the items to store, but it's nothing too technically challenging.

I'd love an app like that, and would easily pay a subscription fee. Or if someone does the maemo parts, I'll build the website :)

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You mean OMAP34xx (OMAP3430 to be specific), OMAP35xx would be both more expensive and less functional for the N900's purposes.

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I only share that ingredient with my girlfriend....


YARR!
}:^)~

Capt'n Cor-azy

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Firstly, that waffle recipe made me laugh!

Secondly, why has noone mentioned GPS related apps. What would be really really cool, and we are nearly there is gps/navigation integration. so we could send and receive locations via email, sms etc, and to and from devices. for example at work I looked up somewhere on Google map. I can email that location. Why can't the tablet's email/mapping software realise what the link is and offer to add it as a poi and route to it?

Also Remember the milk offers locations for todo tasks, but what we really need is integration with GPS, i.e when I'm on the way home past the shop, the mapping app reminds me that I need beans and waffles for example.

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I'm not cool, I also don't buy cool things. What's cool today is embarrassing tomorrow - and hardly ever useful.

Things like week long battery life make everything more enjoyable.

DVB-H ... need I explain what I'd do with this hardware?

Infrared emitter plus integrated remote control application, speech control, phone integration... application level, right?

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bow,
apart from me talking about no cloud being around you are right, they aren't "difficult" problems, just outside my current reach.

regarding you becoming involved in an actual website, its really for another thread or discussion elsewhere, but please do carry on talking :)