Thread: N900 specs revealed
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2009-05-29 , 05:43
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#848
Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
800x480 is not the same as 480x800.
It is the same, as far as amount of displayed text is concerned.

That, and more. OMAP3, for example. X, for example. Full UNIX stack, for example (as good as it gets with all the embedded versions).
As I said before, unless you are bent on having Linux and have specific preference to certain chipsets, go for Nokia 5800. Believe it or not, there are very few people who absolutely want a specific chipset and operating system in their phones. In fact, there must be fewer such people than the ones reading books on their devices.

What do you mean? What applications do you fear will be missing on Maemo 5 which Nokia 5800 provides? I'd rather compare it with Nokia N97, iPhoneOS, and Android.
Well, reiterating what I said before (it does not appear to sink in) N97 and 5800 are essentially the same thing, so you can just as well compare with 5800.

Now, I have not seen Maemo5, but judging from Maemo4, we are at the very least going to be missing a functional mail client (Modest is a sad joke), decent music player (builtin Maemo4 player is...mm...simple), reliable GPS, office apps, PIM, and the mapping application (S60e5 has got Nokia Maps).

As long as you have e.g. RDP/VNC/NX and WWAN you can even run such applications remotely saving you local resources. But these applications, running local or remote, are not optimized for the screen size...
You are getting desperate, you know? I am not even sure what you meant with that. What does RDP/VNC have to do with the daily mobile device use routine by "normal" users?
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