Thread: NITs - what are they good for... ???
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ddalex is offline ddalex
2008-06-10 , 19:54
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Me goes again... Is there, anywhere, a prize for the thread with the longest series of lenghtly posts ?

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
You know Ubuntu mobile is not Ubuntu, hence not a "standard mainstream distro", and uses Hildon, right?
No, actually I wasn't aware that Ubuntu mobile uses Hildon for its UI. That it supports it, like in a lib, yeah, but having it be THE UI, no, I didn't know. I admit, I never did look in depth at Ubuntu mobile distribution, and I don't even know if it can be downloaded and tested from somewhere, but I was using that more like a generic example, and I think that my point, that it is a bad idea having Hildon break perfectly good GTK applications, was well understood .

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
.... Well, I hope you saw the noBounds video, right? That's going to be killer on the N900 (step 4/5); you're on the money with what needs to happen, but Nokia's working on it already.
It's unimaginable that the N900 won't have at least twice the RAM; I'd guess 4x; we've already got dynamic CPU frequency, to a max of 400 MHZ; OOo is still slow... But the N900 will get around double the maximum performance, so yes, that'll work. But remember, OOo will violate the "should focus on how one interacts with a handheld device, not how to cut pixels to fit a desktop environment on a handheld device."; that's always a tradeoff, and OOo won't (IMHO) be possible to convert to a nice hand-held app. Still, once the performance is there, I'm sure it'll be available for all who want it, regardless of the OS.
I've seen that. A video, and nothing in the wild. I got better hopes on this:USB video. But I wouldn't call a mini-B female with autosensing for which you can't get cables "proper USB host port". Your point of OOo is quite valid . But I belive that you got my point: that we should take active steps in driving what's becoming of N900, and how one expects to interact with it, instead of passively wait for another "developer" device that Nokia will throw at us. ITT crowd is the driving force of the NIT extra-value, which is considerable, and I think Nokia will actually listen to our requests of having on the 4th iteration a finished and polished device that wouldn't stand in shame next to 2nd generation iPhone when trying to open a page to let me see what movies are on tonite.

Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Yeah, and you'll get it back; they've heard, and they're working. Just don't write it off for good, because the best is yet to come. Well, in classic backwards fashion, I spent most of the first 80% of these comments answering your last question... Enjoy!
I'm not writing it off. Like I said, I invested too much in it (even if my work is not visible in the community, I know, I know). What I want is to MAKE SURE that what comes is the best of all possible outcomes, and from my point of view, it doesn't seem that NIT/Maemo Next Generation is ready to become that... it can be so much more !