Thread: Can we have an Internet Tablet with TV Out please?
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2007-10-06 , 19:11
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But for certain use cases, the TV (a large TV) clearly wins. Also, the idea of using the camera phone as a mouse is great: After all, most of us do use their tablets together with a mobile phone anyway. Why not make extra use of it?
Yeah, this is the thing, if you have the tablet on the move you'd probably have a cameraphone too anyway to give you an internet connection.


The only thing I don't feel comfortable with is that it would probably add to the size/weight of the device yet again. (Or wouldn't it? I'm not sure.) I want my tablets small, smaller, smallest, every millimeter counts.
I the feature to 'dock up to big screen' is best implemented as an external and optional dock\dongle so as not to increase the price\size\weight for a feature that we may not use every day...
I think you're overestimating how much this would add to the tablet's size or weight.

As far as I can tell, the extra size and weight from supporting TV Out would be absolutely minimal. The N95's 3D graphics acceleration chip is what also provides the TV out, and the TV out signal comes from the three-output 3.5mm jack.

The internet tablets already have a three-output 3.5mm jack for the headset, which I assume everyone wants to keep, so TV Out wouldn't require any new built-in connectors.

The N95 weighs 120g, compared to 206g for the N800, and as well as TV Out it also includes a Carl Zeiss 5mp camera, 30fps VGA camcorder, top-of-the-range 3.5G S60 smartphone, and GPS receiver. You're probably looking at just a few grams for the TV Out chip, and that same chip would also give the tablet 3D graphics acceleration too (if that chip can be used with the tablets, I'm not an electronics expert though).


Originally Posted by bergie View Post
AFAIK, TV out can also be connected to many projectors. This would enable running presentations (and even some demos) from the tablet.
Yes, the TV Out (at least on the N95) is a totally standard television signal, it will work with any SCART input (you do need a $10 SCART adapter though if the TV doesn't have composite inputs).

The photos in the article are from a modern TV, but I also used the N95 without any problems on an old CRT television from the 1990s (funnily enough a Nokia-brand one, from the days when they were a small consumer electronics company).

Using a projector would be a good business use, and it wouldn't matter about the pointer because the person doing the presentation would be looking at the tablet anyway, only the audience would need to see the projection.


These devices really make you feel like James Bond at times. No if only I can unlock and start my car with the N95 I'd be set.
Can't do that in Europe, there's an EU law against cars being remotely started, it's totally forbidden on public roads. Obscure but true... :-)
Last edited by krisse; 2007-10-06 at 19:18.