Yes, but can you socialize with Wikipedia? no.

You mean like, "Hey, Wiki baby, can I buy you a drink? Maybe we can go back to my place later and you can tell me all about Sri Lanka and cochineal dye, and I can update your article on tumescence..."

i have mixed feelings about the day when we can sit down and have a conversation with a computer, just as if it was another person...

I couldn't date Wikipedia. I don't like girls who are 1000x smarter than me. It'd be like bedding the Sibyl.

Thanks for your response, qole. I have no technical problem with development of Maemo software for new hardware.

The problem for me would be if the future hardware doesn't meet my needs and I'm forced to reluctantly switch away from Maemo. (Hypothetical example: if I had to move to Android, my Maemo work would be wasted because it wouldn't be written in Java.)

I no longer have the eyesight of a 20-year-old, and if the new tablets have a smaller screen than the current ones, they're not going to be usable for me (unless they include a cellphone in which case I would use them differently and develop much simpler apps).

When the hardware details are announced, if the new device has either a cellphone OR a screen as big as the N800, I'll write software. But if the new hardware turns out to have a 3.5 inch screen and no phone, I won't use it.

I admire just about everything about the current tablets, and I think Nokia has done a wonderful job so far with the hardware and the software, so I'm cautiously optimistic...

Regards,
Roger

Hi there,

so what I'd like to do or wish for the new device....

1) a reliable, fast PDF reader with notes, wich can handle bigger PDFs - as roleplayer it would be quite cool not to hve haul half a ton of books around and dozens of character sheets when packng for a convention... more space for snacks *grin*

2) better handling of windows shares. Don#t know why but mine are sometimes seen, sometimes not

3) faster processor - it can be annoying to listen to MP3 (audio books mainly) and using feed circuit at the same time....

4) 3D support - there are some nice games flooting around *g*

5) something I love my N800 for: 2 SD slots

thats all for the moment....

Glasswalker

That's called flerting dude.....

I would like a extra row of keys so numbers could be entered with one stroke. How cool is that

It's interesting reading through this topic, as there seem to have been a lot of tangents off on hardware related requests and general "I wish the tablet had x,y,z" rather than what the original thread was about "What cool things would you do?".

Here's a few of my coolness offerings... they're certainly not impossible or far fetched (some of them I'm already working on, some already exist but are just difficult for end users, and some are just crazy... or are they ;o) )

Home automation integration - Come on guys... everyone's talking about ir blasters... forget that, go big AND go home... what about, say, controlling the lights, stereo system etc from your tablet. Go one step further... how about when you get close to your house the tablet automatically associates with the local AP and turns the lights on for you if it's dark, adjusts the thermostat/etc. You could go one further and have it so that if you've got a cell/3g/whatever connection, it monitors your GPS location and does things like thermostat changes/etc when you get closer/farther from your house.

Same sort of lines, what about music integration? How awesome would it be to be listening to a set of MP3s or something on your tablet as you walk around, and when you get to your home computer/stereo/wherever and press a button on your tablet, your home stereo/computer/whatever just continues to play the playlist from your tablet at exactly the same point as you were just at, seamlessly. Same time, press a button on the tablet when you're leaving and have the opposite happen. Yea, sync and technical things involved, but that's what the development team is responsible for taking care of! And heck, while you're at it, same deal for videos...

I'm not sure if they're working on this in the latest carman or not, but about things like oil change reminders if you have one of those ODB interface things hooked up; you punch in a setting of how far/how long in time, and the tablet in the background silently tracks the data from your car and notifies you when it's time to schedule an oil change.

These tablets have so much potential for very cool applications, let's stop worrying about "oh the hardware is missing this piece" as inevitably hardware will change according to demand, and instead focus on the bigger picture of "what cool things" are possible/do you want to do.

Thanks,
-Rob

Small-scale cool: a bedside photo-frame / clock radio. The tablet shows a photo slide show (from local or network dirs, picassa, flickr, etc) with a clock of adjustable size, colour, and font. You can set alarms and it will play mp3s, radio, whatever. The app detects the rotation of the tablet and only shows photos in your collection of that orientation (portrait / landscape). That'd be really nice.