Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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Originally Posted by gnexus View Post
1) OMAP 35xx Applications Processor with OpenGL support.
No, you mean OMAP3430. The OMAP3530 is larger and is missing a couple of important wireless interfaces.

Originally Posted by gnexus View Post
2) Two standard SD card slots.
(I don't want limited built in flash, or miniSD. MiniSD is way too expensive.
Good news is that OMAP3 should have the bus support to do this easily if Nokia decides they need to bundle a 2-4GB internal card again.

Originally Posted by gnexus View Post
6) A display with support for at least a 768 vertical screen resolution.
(So we can see our dialog boxes.
Er, no, that's not realistic. The OMAP3430 (the OMAP3420 and OMAP3410 go up to 640x480) supports a max of 1024x768, which means 1024x600 at our aspect ratio. That's really pushing the "sane" dpi limits, though.

Originally Posted by gnexus View Post
7) At least 512MB RAM.
(So we can run our applications.
Not entirely realistic, I've come to find out. The largested PoP packages currently offered are either 256MB SDRAM, no NAND or 128MB SDRAM and 256MB NAND. That's all that's available from the two suppliers (Samsung and Micron). This is also why the Pandora and Beagle don't offer more than 128MB of RAM. This may change, but I doubt we'll reach 512MB with any NAND.

Originally Posted by gnexus View Post
That's it! Nothing fancy. . . Just the basics are enough for me. Unfortunately it seems they can't simply settle on getting the basics correct FIRST before trying to get fancy with other things
Yeah, this thread has well and truly run its course, considering that I covered exactly what's realistic and desired back on page 1 in October last year. . . .