Thread: Opinion after 6 hours of use. (New owner)
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2007-10-11 , 08:21
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Congrats on getting an N800, I assume the lower price swung you?

The screen IS good, isn't it? I had to take some photos of an N800 displaying pictures for a review and the screen came out looking so sharp and bright that it just looked fake. I had to put a caption on the picture saying that I hadn't photoshopped it.


Originally Posted by keithlm View Post
So we can see that the CPU is just at the border between good enough and too weak. (That's okay... I'd rather have 4-6 hours of unit use than 2-3 hours of faster unit use.)
Yeah, I think this is what a lot of people fail to understand about mobile devices: they all have a limited amount of battery life, so any gains in one area cause losses in another. The N800's CPU is probably the fastest it can be right now while also having a reasonable battery life. If you add a bigger battery, that makes the unit bigger and heavier. There's just no perfect solution in the mobile world, everything has a downside.

Maybe the best example was when Sony artificially capped the CPU speed of the PSP for so long, because they wanted to trade off processing power for battery life.