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	Capt'n Corrupt	2007-11-13 , 13:51
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Originally Posted by ArnimS

Hey, does anybody with some php skillz want to put together a webpage with a table of all the features mentioned here, and a voting mechanism? If it's highly visible/promoted, i'm sure it'd be possible to collect a few hundred votes. This would provide a quantifiable resource to measure interest in different features. (understanding of course that some of these are mutually exclusive.)

I've thought about this. I was thinking of going through all the posts, creating a spreadsheet and tabulating votes for the different feature requests. Putting them in graphical form would also be very nice. Hmm.. I could potentially hack together some PHP/Perl, but I'll check if there's an online resource that does this before I entertain the notion.

Originally Posted by ArnimS

As for my pet feature (gaming controls on both sides of display) i have to concede that they would probably be a kiss of death given consumer design-expectations we're seeing on these devices nowadays. The N810 and new Apple designs really convinced me of this. Would there be enough interest for three n9x0 form factors? 1) N800-like 2) N810-like 3) Gp2x-like?

I agree that with simple modifications, the N900 can be a gaming rig. The idea of carrying around a library of Snes/Gen ROMS is truly exciting; the thought of playing shining force/final fantasy tactics on my N900 is drool-worthy.

I think that the gaming controls can be relegated to the slide-out keypad. It's already got a game-like setup. All it needs is durable raised keys that can *act* as gaming buttons in addition to their keypad roles. The d-pad can also be improved to take on the potential use as a game machine.

In this case, there's no need to kill the tablet's brand, but opens it up as a gaming unit.

Does anybody know how the N810 fares using the keypad as a gamepad?

Originally Posted by ArnimS

If Nokia chooses not to embrace that market segment with the ITOS/linux platform, some users may prefer the the Gp2x-based Craigulator which could dominate the portable linux homebrew/emulation scene in 2008, while also providing debian-arm apps, wifi and 800x480 display.

Thanks for the link. I'm quite interested in learning about the software.

Originally Posted by ArnimS

To whomever posted the blender sketch for the touchpad/analog circular dpad, nice design - might be expensive or impossible to produce though. Whatever nokia delivers as the successor to the tiny press-to-click 4-way dpad, let's hope it's superior. The sliding spring-centered analog thumbpad (see youtube link i posted earlier) could really be perfect.

Haha. That was me.

It's true, it may be an expensive setup (I'm not gifted in the dark art of engineering), but a novel idea in the least. I also like your "slide pad".

Whatever the case is, I hope for at least *one* solution.

Originally Posted by ArnimS

Re. SD gripes: ... for some people nothing will be enough will it? An N810 and 10 miniSd cards allows 80 GB of swappable media while your persistent data goes on internal 2GB. With battery-powered USB drives, there's practically no limit, is there? We know you have hundreds of gigs of media on your pc, and I am very proud of you. But please read this slowly: it won't all fit on any pocketable device.

Well said. This is the primary reason that I'm choosing the N810 over the N800. I doubt I will ever need more than 8GB of storage at a time. How many videos/songs can you listen to simultaneously?

Having to carry around an extra *tiny* easily wallet-able card is not so bad. How many videos can you watch at once? How many songs do you need at any one time? An 8G card should be enough to hold quite a few full length videos and another 8G a LARGE library of audio.

It would be nice to have more internal slots, but it's not a deal breaker IMO. In any case, the capacities of the removable media is only going to increase in the near future.

Originally Posted by ArnimS

Re. HD Video: ... given TI's OMAP 3430 capabilities, HD video will be hardware accelerated, as long as it's encoded to proper format.

Agreed. It seems as if this will be the natural choice for the N900. Let's hope that there is adequate driver support for the Omaps DSPs. It would be a shame for software developers to have to fall back on the processors clock rate to 'accelerate' software.

Originally Posted by ArnimS

Re. OpenGL: ... My feeling is: competition will be too tough in 2008 for Nokia to not include this on the N9x0. Anybody feel like placing a small bet against this?

Agreed. I'm really hoping to see support, and it seems obvious; but so did GL on the current platform.

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