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SD69 2007-09-25 15:41
Re: real (future) competition
 
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Originally Posted by pixelseventy2 (Post 77464)
Out and about it will have a decent screen for checking email, browsing the interweb or whatever, but take it into your office and it will wirelessly bond with the monitor and keyboard/mouse on your desk (NFC maybe?) giving you full screen usability. Pick it up, take it home and put it by your TV and it will again bond allowing you to watch the movies on your 8terabyte SD card :) in full glory, or link to your hifi for wall-shaking volume.
I agree that TV out would be a signficiant plus for the 2008 product. Nokia already did it on their N95, which I believe has an ARM chip very similar to that in the N800.

pixelseventy2 2007-09-25 15:54
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Originally Posted by SD69 (Post 77626)
I agree that TV out would be a signficiant plus for the 2008 product. Nokia already did it on their N95, which I believe has an ARM chip very similar to that in the N800.
To be honest, I'd rather see VGA/DVI out first. At the moment I have a windows box in work which I use solely for checking email against the exchange server with. I think it would be great if I could connect my n800 to my KVM and use it to get my email with a big screen and keyboard, then pick it up and walk off for mobile email. That would keep my dev. machine purely for development and my mail/contacts/whatever portable.

Maybe Nokia could even start selling LCD TVs/monitors off the back of the N800, for people who want the internet at a decent resolution but don't want/need a full PC.

SD69 2007-09-25 16:32
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Originally Posted by pixelseventy2 (Post 77632)
To be honest, I'd rather see VGA/DVI out first.
So would I (and Nokia). But the ARM has HW support for TV out, so unless a new graphics chip gets crammed in there for other reasons, TV out is the way to go. It's not a bad compromise for the sake of cost and product development, LCD HDTV/monitors are mainstream now.

Milhouse 2007-09-25 16:38
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Originally Posted by trevarthan (Post 77613)
I just used an iphone recently for the first time. I'd so buy one if they supported third party apps, like SSH. The responsiveness in the UI is absolutely amazing. And the multi-touch is nice too.
SSH (Dropbear) is already available for the iPhone/Touch - however it looks like a pain to setup and would most likely be broken with the next firmware update... hacking the iPhone/Touch will most likely be a constant game of cat & mouse, much as it is with Sony and the PSP. :(

tso 2007-09-25 17:24
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so instead, grab a 770 or N800, a bluetooth keyboard, a feature phone with bluetooth, and install dropbear.

Rebski 2007-09-26 17:56
Re: real (future) competition
 
It is still at the rumourmill stage but if true and matches the artists impression then it could be a force to be reckoned with.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/i...ton-successor/

aflegg 2007-09-27 15:51
Re: real (future) competition
 
Nah, people will still claim it's not a competitor because it's only got one hardware button. The N800's got 12 - it's not even in the same league!

rickh 2007-09-27 16:48
Re: real (future) competition
 
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Originally Posted by aflegg (Post 78041)
Nah, people will still claim it's not a competitor because it's only got one hardware button. The N800's got 12 - it's not even in the same league!
I didn't believe you until i actually went and counted, and...
well I'll be damned. There really are 12.

R.
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Karel Jansens 2007-09-27 17:18
Re: real (future) competition
 
Just to put things into perspective...

The Newton was discontinued by Jobs in 1998.

Rumours about a "new Newton" have been surfacing since... 1998.

TA-t3 2007-09-27 17:26
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.. and still it feels like my T3 has got more buttons.. but it's only got 7!

(but then again it's also got a 'reset hole' at the back, which my N800 never needs! Ha! ;))


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