Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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drizek is offline drizek
2009-02-28 , 18:22
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#453
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
It's funny you know, posts like this make me feel like a genius. I *am* watching films on it, listening to ogg music, browsing on a webkit browser (Nokia doesn't own Qt long enough to make a difference, IMHO, but still), using the webcam for gizmo and various funnies. As for swapping and desktop OS, it's hard to contest that it's better at it than the Axim running windows XP. Flash, well, that's Adobe's responsibility at least as much as Nokias. The fact that mytube with a 3rd party player does so much better than the official flash player speaks volumes. Can't comment on keyboard as I'm on a N810, OTG ditto. All in all, it's just what it says it is, a tinkerer's OSS device, far from perfect but gets better by the day. I don't see how your problems will be resolved with either a WinMo device or how you will stuff a Mini9 in your pocket. You do sound like a future Archos person, in need of an Opera browser, good video and media performance.
Well I reflashed it. Went to gron mayer, added a half a million repositories to get the dependencies for webkit, then installed Tear 0.3.5. I am very very impressed. My n800 has been sitting in a drawer for months, running android(useless). Tear really does change things though. Maybe even enough to keep it around. I have to decide whether I would rather have an n800 or a 16gb SSD for my mini 9(so I can run OSX on it as well as Ubuntu).

Of course, I charged it up at night, went to bed, browsed around for about an hour and then put it down. I wake up in the morning to check my email... and the battery is dead. WTF? This is a fresh flash, I have literally only installed 3 libraries, webkit, and Tear. This battery drain thing is by far the most annoying part of the nokias. It is even worse than microb.

Also, to get more on topic, I won't really be too excited by the OMAP3 stuff, not when ARM has announced that the next generation is going to be many times as powerful with multicore and other cool things.