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Originally Posted by RFS-81 View Post
I always wonder how this portability will work in practice, as for any "serious" gaming you'd still need an extra display, a power supply, extra game controllers, a means to connect these all. Also, how does the ever increasing need for more power (gaming), and smaller devices (portable) work together (in a way that non-portable systems can be replaced)? High end gaming systems today come with 1000W power supplies, even entry level systems use hundreds of watts.

Or am I missing something, is there some revolutionary new technology in sight, that will allow future GPUs perform like current high end vidcards with only fraction of their power usage?
Thankfully, Android already has excellent built-in support for multiple screens--you just need the hardware and the software to take advantage of it (there's already a few dual-screen devices and programs out there that take advantage of that). You CAN use game controllers--that's already been the case for a long time (I've been using a Wiimote myself, my brother prefers his PS3-like BT game controller made especially for Android/iPhone).. the power supplies aren't a problem, though. These 4/5-core Tegra 3 processors use less power than previous generations (that was the BIG selling point for Tegra 3 in particular, remember? That's why it can even claim a 5th core--the 5th is specifically for idle, slow apps to sip ever-so-slowly in the background) and the power supplies tend to come with the device, if you wish to remain plugged in. It would appear that you have been out of the loop a little, probably, yes.

As the article linked above states: "As to how a quad-core processor ends up with lower power consumption than a dual-core chip, this is because the quad-core will typically finish the task earlier and hence go into power-saving mode sooner. This results in a lower overall power draw." You should especially read the section titled, "It's even better for gaming." It's hardly new info, this stuff, and upcoming processors for Androids appears to be only faster and more efficient--enough that ARM's are starting to become attractive for servers, now. Check the buzz on it. It's getting pretty interesting!

Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Contract with Microsoft is like poison pills in Nokia, so Nokia is not interesting even to be taken over. Microsoft has Nokia by the balls still for 4 years.
Unless the whole point is for Elop to get in, ruin the company and then start selling off the valuable assets to Microsoft in the name of trying to help keep Nokia afloat. Then, once the company is stripped of all its valuable assets, finally let it just die off quietly and in that barely-remembered obscurity of brands that people sometimes mention and people react with a 'OH YEAH! I remember them! Wow! What ever happened to that brand/company/etc?" Just my theory, mind you.

Originally Posted by milk224 View Post
Word is getting out, people are at least talking about it. I see them promoting it on the Today show, Extra, throwing tons of commercials out. The onslaught of commercials and advertising (from what I noticed) just started about 3 weeks ago. I'll give them some more time to see how their advertising blitz worked out for them, in the meantime I won't say it's a success or a failure.

I feel like they didn't advertise Meego or the Nokia smartphone brand at all. I saw no mention of tech blogs picking it up. It was basically all word of mouth, which is never a successful way to promote something.
People are at least TALKING about it the way they TALKED about everything from Zune HD to previous Windows Mobile devices all the way to Microsoft Bob (anybody remember all those horrible MS Bob commercials and those free fake Bob glasses they used to hand out as a promotion back in 1995?). Paying people to talk about it isn't the same as people liking it and it's especially not the same as people BUYING it with their own money. So far, the Lumia in the US has only managed to "sell" in decent numbers by effectively being free or nearly free right at launch day. If Microsoft or Nokia would release actual numbers of activations or end-customer purchases so we can see how well it ACTUALLY sold and how it's been trending since release day, I'm pretty confident that those numbers wouldn't look good. We'll probably never see those numbers. For that matter, far more people are talking about Android EVERY DAY (since there are a LARGE number of manufacturers constantly putting out another awesome new device every month). With that rapid pace of evolution, the talk about Lumia fades pretty fast and it had already lagged behind on specs on release day already and it's looking worse every day.
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