Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

for example: digital compass for me is one such limitation

The reason i ask this is because, i just purchased an android phone for my wife, very good deal for £99, and found afterwords that this phone will not be able to support flash 10.1 due to physical limitation at the hardware level.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

The N900 is an ARMv7 device, Adobe Flash 10.1 runs on it, it was demoed back in October. Nokia just has to get off its damn arse and release it, which they won't.

It might be backportable when MeeGo arrives.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

Digital compass is not strictly necessary for N900 as the GPS sensor is sensitive enough to allow for extrapolation of direction from user's displacement.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

yes it is necessary. GPS sensor for replacing real digital compass, is rubbish if there is tall buildings, you are inside, not moving or it is clowdy. Or, you are abroad and data-roaming is not working or insanely expensive so you can't use A-GPS.

Lack of multi touch can be a limitation also in the future with some software.

Neither you have HDMI output from N900.

USB OTG or pseudo host mode maybe never will work with N900.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

Yes, it's strictly necessary. What if in the evening I'm sitting on my balcony and I want my n900 to tell me what constellation it's pointing at? I haven't displaced. What now?

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It doesn't do LTE without a serious overhaul. It doesn't have a coffee-making attachment. It doesn't have a builtin deathray. It doesn't have an invisible cloak. Even PR1.3 won't fix these defects. Neither will Flash 10.1.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

a) N900 GPS DOES lock with no network link

b) A-GPS is only used once, to download ephemeris and catalogues. After that, you're good. It's not free, but even on the other side of Earth you're still about an Euro or two short.

Agreed, it's not exactly compass, but it's not useless. And, I get a lock in cloudy weather, it's just harder.

On a side note, I tried the iPhone's and by slowly rotating the phone along its axis I was able to get a reading on "West" with a +/- 45 degree error. That is, fiddle with it enough and West will be South.

I find this to be unusable. Better to use GPS, photos, a map, or ask a camel than to think you are going the right way and actually going 90 degrees to the west.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

Actually, a very good compass is provided by orrery, whenever the sun or the moon is visible.

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

If a compass is that necessary, just buy one of these and stick it somewhere on the N900..you'll barely notice it.

http://shoponspot.com/gadget/gift31241971826.jpg

Re: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
 

I believe the law of entropy has definitively determined that it will eventually fall apart.