Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

You're going to need to wait for final for that since there's still so much work being done on exactly that right now.

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

Am I the only here feeling a little uneasy that battery life is only getting "so much work being done" on it at this late stage?

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

Michal! Great to see you here! It's been a while since Mobius Boston, and I see you're now using a 50D. :)

Anyway, excellent N900 preview (blogged about it)! Thanks for providing some screenshots of some that I have not seen before like the rich-text email editor, calendar views, phone portrait mode screens, PDF reader app, and Documents To Go (Word, Sheet, and Slideshow).

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

+1 for the article, with on minor correction: I believe its 1200 DMIPS. The 2000 DMIPS is a theoretical maximum for the 1GHz Cortex A8 (you get the 1200 following the 2DMIPS/Mhz pattern).
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Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

You're putting words into my mouth. It isn't ONLY getting work on it at this late stage. It's been getting work on it this entire development period. It's a long-term on-going process, so no... it's not something that was just started last week or something.

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

You are.

Battery life is always one of the last things to be tweaked as other features need to be nailed down and tested throughly before the battery life targets can be set and met.

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

Thanks again for your very informative and enjoyable preview!

here are the few things i noticed:

"(the first superscalar CPU in a Symbian phone)"
this is not a symbian phone :)

"memory available for installation of 3rd party software (i.e. actually the whole rootfs file system) seems to be limited to a relatively small capacity of about 256 MB "
i remember reading somewhere here in this forum that this actually won't be a problem, because the rootfs is supposed to be around 1 GB in the final version. i can't find the source for that any more, so i guess it still remains a rumour :)
what i did find was this thread. the mailing list linked in the last post is a good hint that many applications have already been modified to use /opt, so the small rootfs (if it stays small) shouldn't be that bad an issue as you make it out to be.

"enabling USB host mode"
information on that is somewhat limited, currently it's all speculation.
it might be only a software issue, maybe a small adapter is needed, but it could also be that it won't work at all. the only thing that is certain is that there's no official support.

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

@My-Symbian.com

Haha we don't mind you talking about unoptimized things, because as you clearly pointed out. It's unoptimized yet! But true given that they have the ability to change drastically it may not make sense to bother with anyway.

And bah on the fragile state of the n900 screen. I guess you gotta sacrifice something to have the sensitivity?

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

Yeah, you guys are probably right. The same sort of stuff was being said about the iPhone when it was launched. :)

Re: Two extensive previews of N900 prototype
 

For those people with the n900 unit and an NDA. Do we assume the NDA has now expired since the My-Symbian.com is out and Nokia gave him the unit to review?