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2008-04-07 , 15:20
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Originally Posted by brontide View Post
The thing that bugs me about WiMAX is the NIT's have a non trivial list of issues that need work.
So they should cease all hardware and software development until your personal list of bugs and issues are fixed? You do realize that the hardware team can't really do anything about software issues, right? And that the software team can still work on other issues while the hardware team is working on a new tablet? (see Diablo for the perfect example of this incredible phenomenon )

Originally Posted by brontide View Post
Here they invest time, money, and marketing into a new feature that will have little to no impact on the current deficiencies or appeal of the device.
To you perhaps, but you're developing a bit of a reputation of an unsatisfiable customer. WiMAX does appeal to a lot of people, and may very well solve many of their on-the-go data access issues in the short-term, and perhaps all of them in the long.

Originally Posted by brontide View Post
WiMAX is doubly silly since, like it or not, EDGE would have probably maxed out the bus bandwidth of this device and allowed it to interoperate with data networks in almost every country.
EDGE maxed out the 'bus bandwidth'? Which 'bus bandwidth', exactly? EDGE will get you 15KB/sec max, that's certainly not maxing out any 'bus bandwidth' that I know of. EDGE is the past, Nokia is looking towards the future.

Originally Posted by brontide View Post
That would have immediate impact on the community and appeal of the NIT's and solved an issue that many people have with the device.
. . . and turning the device into a cellphone will take a hell of a lot more time and energy away from that "non trivial list of issues" of yours than simple WiMAX compatibility.

Looking back at you laundry list of issues, I can see that most of the issues are either long-term issues (major UI stuff), hardware issues, or currently already actively being worked on (Modest, rtcomm, etc).
 

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