Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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Wizard69 is offline Wizard69
2007-10-30 , 04:15
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
New 4:3 sources may be dying out (not really, there's still a ton of it around), but old sources aren't suddenly going to change as HD becomes more popular, and I'd like to be able to watch those old things comfortably.
I realize the old stuff won't disappear soon. But I'd rather be backward compatible than have no forward capability at all.

Besides you loose absolutely nothing with a standard def signal being displayed in a wide screen monitor. Given that you fill the screen vertically, you will see all that can be seen of a standard def signal and the actual picture will not be any smaller.
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Be that as it may, you're not being realistic. Look at the dimensions:

SD—32mm x 24mm x 2mm
CF-Type I—43mm x 36mm x 3.3mm
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Yep a little fat.
That's more than 30% larger overall. For a device which can barely take MiniSD, it's incredibly misguided to think that it would be able to handle a CF card without a major increase in overall size (bad). This, is a bad idea.
Well we are talking about a new device here not a N810. There is no reason for the N900 to have the little keyboard and all the compromises that caused.


Yes and yes.
Man there is a lot of effort being put into hardware for these sorts of devices. TI. SAMSUNG, QUALCOM and whomever else. All this activity has to bear fruit someday soon.


But it is huge, especially for a mobile device. MiniUSB is about a 70% space savings over full-A USB and MicroUSB another 50% off of that. Again, your understanding of size constraints in mobile devices seems to be flawed. Just get yourself some USB devices that support USB OTG and the right kind of cables. You'll be set.
No very likely I'd punt and go back to a laptop for everything.
The number of games available for the platform would beg to differ. I don't want a PSP, it doesn't do the things I need it to do—it does one thing well, games, and I'm not interested in carrying around a single-function device like that. I don't see why we should have functionality crippled for the sake of a full-faced screen.
Honestly I don't game that much. It just seems to me the Game machines are better optimized for games than any internet type table device every will be. The other problem I would have is wearing out keys on the keypad to support games.
Then keep the screen ratio the way it is and leave me with my d-pad.
Nope no can do. If Nokias IT's are to have a future they need to embrace what will be the common video formats real soon now.

Thin about it how many (informed) people are going out and buying a standard def television? Not many. The quality of the SD signals on these HD sets is not an issue, what is is the need to be prepared for the future. In this case the very near future.

Video though is only a small part of the equation. A large video area makes for a better device all around and allows better user interaction.
Uh, you still need something to bring down that frequency. This is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, not only because nobody uses shortwave.
Just do a direct conversion to baseband. I do have to reject the idea that nobody uses shortwave though. In any event the actual amount of technology you would have to add to the IT is very small space wise.


That's what the internet is for, and if those conditions are really that important to you, maybe you should just buy yourself a digital weather device of some kind, because I know highly-variable atmospheric reading from my IT are at about the bottom of my list of "needed features".
Well you seemed convinced that local conditions mean nothing to you. I can't do much about that.
And a decent solar device should have some sort of standard plug you can hook into.
Often unregulated.

Which would be where an E-series IT would come in, but I suspect that that's a ways off (if it ever comes).
Well it is obvious that there is a large amount of development going on with respect to these devices. One of these manufactures will hit all the right buttons and light a fire in the market place.

The Nokia N810 kinda shocked me in that I thought they had a good handle on what was wanted in the market place. Of course I could be wrong - time will tell there. If there is one thing that this thread has highlighted is that people want lots of memory in their tablets. From there onward the story gets more fragmented.

Dave