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Re: First N900 Review

Aye.
Two fingers scroll and right click are awesome.
The 3 fingers expose shortcuts are rather nice too.

For a smartphone with sub 4" screen, which are often used 1 handed anyway, I think a capacitve screen with appropriately designed UI would work better than resistive screen.

Of course having the cake and eating it too would be preferable: HTC has patented a high resolution stylus+capacitive screen system.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by danramos (Post 314229)

I almost guarantee you he took the euro number and converted it to US dollars... and now he decided to think it was euros again without converting. As incredibly expensive as US $780 already is for a tablet, it doesn't need to exaggerated.

If it is so, then I am wrong: I thought that the quoted price in dollars was the right one.
I just wanted to point out that these companies usually sell for the same amount in euros, dollars and pounds. Sometimes the euro amount is even higher than the dollar amount :mad:

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by luca (Post 314432)

780 euro would be the only reason why not to get this phone. I can live with 550 euro but 780 euro is to much an will kill the phone.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by sondjata (Post 314405)

actually, latest apple laptops do have multitouch

And this is one feature which totally kicks *** in a trackpad. Forward/back, next/previous tab and scrolling all on the trackpad makes browsing very convenient.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 314438)

And this is one feature which totally kicks *** in a trackpad. Forward/back, next/previous tab and scrolling all on the trackpad makes browsing very convenient.

Now that^ is something that might be worth having multi-touch on a portable device and that is, if the tablet could also be used as a Bluetooth pointing device for a big screened desk or laptop. :cool:

Especially cool if one of the tablets drives was recognized and accessed by the other machine as portable storage...

and...

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Originally Posted by Mara (Post 314357)

Thanks for revealing this "multi-touch with one hand" secret. I tried to demo this with N810 (just as a mock-up device, obviously not multi-touch capable), but found it pretty difficult. The index and middle finger aren't very flexible (at least mine...). There are only some certain areas on the screen you can reach with reasonable difficulty. The bottom part of the screen is almost completely covered with the hand/fingers. If you need visibility to the bottom part of the screen, then this method is not very useful.

Agreed... besides, I'd rather keep my middle finger free at all times... for social commentary. :D

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by Architengi (Post 314320)

So there is no way Apple says NO to Nokia on selling a license on that patent? If they sell the licence with 10$/device to Palm, maybe they can ask from Nokia 99$ and this is another way of saying NO. :(

Assuming for the sake of argument that Apple owns such a patent (which has not been demonstrated), if Apple thinks it will make more money by not licensing the patent, or by not licensing it to particular companies, it won't.

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Originally Posted by deadmalc (Post 314218)

"vendor agnostic" etc. etc.

But without this how would we survive?

LOL... I love that game. And I have to admit, we're probably more responsible for nutty phrases than anyone... not counting the occasional hilarious translation. :D

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Originally Posted by vkv.raju (Post 314322)

But, if there is a user base asking for it, then why can't Nokia provide it.

And remember to throw in the hard case! ;-)

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Not sure if Apple still "owns" the patent to multi-touch. Last I heard some company in Asia was suing Apple for patent infringement over multi-touch.

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Originally Posted by Architengi (Post 314320)

As much as I enjoy speculating, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, eh? ;)