Thread: Will Joe Average understand why the N900 is special?
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2009-10-08 , 19:06
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Originally Posted by smarsh View Post
Yep. Mine is the desire to have a device. I want to run with it to work on the trails around here, take notes in meetings and on the plane (and my plane trips are usually several hours long), review papers and write reviews, write and give presentations, play on it when bored (not often), call home (Skype for preference) when away, and get where i"m going in a different country or part of my country. It should cost less than a grand and fit in my pocket cos I don't want to lug a big box around, and it should weigh no more than 1/2 pound or so (remember, I want to run with it - stopwatch, gps, HRM potentially). Would be great if I could use it for paying for stuff at POS too...

Don't much care for air gestures. I see them every day

Above all: 1 device.

Anyone got any suggestions?
I think your particular trade off will be between the "write and give presentations" and the "no more than 1/2 pound". The Viliv S5 is around 400 gms but it will handle everything else if you can accept the on screen keyboard. The UMID M1 adds back in the keyboard and gets down to almost 300 gms but I understand there are problems hooking it up to an external display.

I can't speak for the N900. I understand it is handling Office files with Documents to Go. Unfortunately, Dataviz has not announced this and while they support editing presentations on some hardware they don't on others. It's also possible OpenOffice or one of its variants will work. Once you've got the presentation, the question would be could the N900 output it to a VGA/DVI/HDMI cable for projection.