for use with proper audio equipment ... some ppl cant carry their stuff around but want to sample DACs and AMPs with the music they listen to regularly. it would be nice to be able to output audio digitally ... usb is jittery though and so is HDMI however the HDMI has a much higher bandwidth for audio.

supposedly the N8 outputs audio over hdmi as well ... i have not read this officially though.


about the N9 having omap4, i dont think its so far fetched ... TI is a huge partner with nokia, omap4 has been available for quite sometime, since february i believe. now the blaze platform was only just released, shipments of the chips to manufacturers began a while ago, so it would fit the timeline of 12-16 months for producing the next top nokia device. TI has said that the first finished products would appear Q4 this year. we shall see, even if its omap4430 ... the battery savings would be near 40% according to TI.

as far as a capacitive, im saddened by this, i like using my screen whenever i please ... regardless, i hope the screen is 1280*720 if its not, thats cool too. but if it is, that would go a long way for recording HD videos, and viewing pictures.

i have no proof, but the november conference and the scope with which nokia partners with TI, its unlikely that they pimp the older proc, but then again the N97 surprised everyone with the weak proc ... so theres precedence for us to be let down immensely.

omap4 ftw!

about the FAT32 thing ... i dont get why SDXC couldnt be supported. up to 2TB per partition .. is it purely linux, cuz it doesnt seem like its a table allocation problem.