Wow! I remember Sage TV! It was REALLY slick, even way back when it was HARD to find a good piece of DVR software on even DEDICATED devices made to be used as DVR's. VERY good for Android and Google TV! I wonder how the TV execs will react to this? They were already flipping raged over the current Google TV. Myopic mental midgets that they are, they prefer to deny customers content the way they want it, WHEN they want it and pine for the 80's style TV schedules and Nielson ratings. :P

I absolutely, 100% chalk it up to the app developers, although I'm not necessarily convinced that they're lazy so much as maybe in need of learning good ol' "best practices." This is just like the early days of web page development--where you had people who INSISTED that their website was best viewed at high resolutions... and then other people who coded their websites to automatically re-flow and adjust to just about any sane resolution. I actually keep a placemarker webpage at my website (http://pleco.org) that I designed/wrote in vi (a notepad-like plain-text editor) but I wrote it "properly" to flow and readjust itself well... I even hyper-optimized each and every image on the page so that it loads fast even on a lowly 1200 baud modem. The result is a web page that, even today, looks pretty simple but good--well formatted--and even looks great on a tiny 320x240 screen. (I've tried loading it up on every web browser you can imagine.. even on my mom's old PalmOne Zire z72, my Palm Tungstun T5, and my old Atari 800XL with Contiki. Basically, app designers CAN do things the quick and dirty way and make it look right on certain hardware, or do it the RIGHT WAY (giving up nothing except discipline) and get the same results all across the board on all hardware. There's really no good excuse.

For the record, MOST things look GREAT on my Galaxy Tab with very few exceptions--and those few are obvious in that they either revert to a teeny screen inside my giant tablet interface (to emulate a phone-sized screen) or else I see mis-shapen objects/icons... which is UNFORGIVABLE because they're clearly using a full capable SDK version (if it doesn't revert to a small screen, it's because they're using a newer SDK) but they're still manually and recklessly coding their UI to a teeny screen device instead of formatting things in a smart way and letting the OS handle it FOR them regardless of the screen dimension and DPI.

That's my experience and understanding, anyway. YMMV

What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken?

Dude--keep in touch! I knew this was going to happen one way or another and it's a shame. Where can I find you hanging out socially?? If nothing else, friend me up on the Facebook thing.

Guilty as charged. I hope it's been a pleasure for everyone that's joined me on this trip with the Tab! I know I'm STILL finding new and incredible things to do with tit. Here.. take a look at THESE cool and crazy things I've been playing with lately!! Let's see an N900 do this stuff that even my old Motorola Droid and Galaxy Tab can handily do thanks to ongoing excellent platform support:

PhotoFunia
Video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzHnPJWx7A

PhotoFunia is a photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. Put your face on a billboard, a stamp, or in a Warhol-like work of pop-art. Become the Mona Lisa or a bodybuilder. You get over 150 scenes to play with. You're not cutting and pasting; instead, the app "finds" the face in your photo and integrates it with the scene of your choice.

and
Postagram

Postagram prints and ships your photos to friends and family as real postcards. Postagram makes it easy to send a printed photo in the mail to yourself, friends or family anywhere in the world. Take a shot with the app or use photos from your photo library or Facebook.

You can also print your photos right from galleries and albums such as: QuickPic, picplz, PicsIn and pho.to.


You can use Postagram to print from your favorite photo editor and effects apps like: PicSay, Vignette, Camera360, Touchnote, Postdroid, FxCamera, Postino, Shoot it!, Camera Zoom FX, Retro Camera and PhotoFunia.

There... some more things to get addicted to. ENJOY!

How do you figure the N900 isn't losing as much value as these other devices? Given the very high platform support for new OS's, even from the community if not the manufacturers, even on stuff as old as the Motorola Droid, and considering how dramatic the price dropped on the N900's almost immediately out of the gate, I can't necessarily agree. Are you basing this on some specific criteria or some "bluebook" type of value system? Near as I can tell, people are still buying up LOTS of the old Android devices so that they can hack OS's onto them (I'm not sure I'll ever end up completely giving up on my Motorola Droid for the solid reliability of hacking on it--even if I got a new phone to replace it someday or switched carriers).