Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2008-07-31 , 20:47
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
I'd have thought this will be pretty high up the list of things to fix, it's certainly been noticed by lots of people in a negative way. I can't imagine Nokia will ignore this.

As for the rest:

* TI OMAP 3440 core with working OpenGL drivers
* CPU in the 800MHz range.
* Color bump on the LCD
* Similar or better battery life
Yes please to the above.

* Doubled RAM/Flash
Not too bothered about this, more RAM will reduce battery life.

* Dual SD-card slots
* Wifi/Bluetooth but no stupid cellular radio of any sort
* Ambidextrous button layout (twice the buttons, twice the fun!)
* No slider.
I need a keyboard, please keep the slider!

* Resolution bump on the LCD to ~1024x600
Not too bothered, text is too small at that DPI anyway, better to have a more fluid zoom like on the iPod, etc.

* Accelerometer-based screen rotation
Sounds good (not for the rotation, for the hacking )

* Multitouch
* h.264 hardware video decoding
On the OMAP3xxx this will be on the DSP, so we can do it ourselves if needs be. OpenMAX DSP components though please, let us use the closed source stuff in our pipelines!!

* Video-out of some kind
Definitely, this would be very cool (think presentation at LinuxTag )
I think I agree with a lot of that--but I don't think I care about the color increase--that would put more overhead on the CPU (also lowering the battery time as well). If the CPU has to do more work, it would do less work and would serve a better purpose having a high resolution screen--particularly for web browsing. I disagree that it would be hard to see at that pitch, though. This is a tablet device--near to your face--not a laptop on the desk at arms'-length.

More RAM would be MUCH better--it will MAYBE reduce battery life a little bit but the advantage of doubled memory is well worth the difference. A different, newer, battery might be in order here too. (I'll bet memristors would DEFINITELY solve this problem someday)

I couldn't care TOO much about the slider. If I really need a keyboard, I find it's better to use my folding BT keyboard.. and for anything else on-the-go, the touchscreen is fine as a keyboard. I think the slider adds unnecessary weight and battery drain (backlight, resistance, etc.). With the N800, I've never really had a problem with not having a keyboard to slide out.

Open hardware--definitely. I heartily agree that Nokia needs to open this up more. Nokia is there to sell customers what they want--not make it more attractive for a competitor to come along and snag away customers to a more open and useful platform when they come along and sell us something closer to what we actually wanted.

Video out--would be nice. Very nice! If it adds too much expensive and hardware, I'd probably rather not have it.. but there have been impromptu moments where I TRULY wish it did that. (meetings, gatherings with friends, etc.)

There's my $2 (inflation! whew!)