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2009-04-26
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Both my phone and my n8x0's have internal removable batteries and internal removable SD cards. Are you telling me one more small replaceable piece of internal hardware would be a big deal? You'd be kidding, right?
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2009-04-26
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A lot of present day applications (some of which ship with the NIT) already fail in various connectivity scenarios. For example, the IM can't keep it's status between connection changes even if it's life depended on it. Canola also has this nasty habit of disrespecting flight mode. Yes, I know, the canonical answer is that I should have filed a bug report - except I think if more app devs get it wrong than right, IMO it's not an application bug.
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2009-04-26
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Neither your battery nor your SD cards are hooked up via USB. Ask the Touchbook people how well WiFi PSM works on their internal USB dongle (hint, not well). Powersaving is not (and probably never will be) as aggressive on a USB peripheral as on a directly connected, soldered-on peripheral, thus, internal USB peripherals == **** battery life.
As far as hooking it up via any other means, modular components cost money and use up space (for an extreme example of how this works, see the BUG). Would you be willing to sacrifice a memory card slot for your modular modem?
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2009-04-26
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As far as computing goes, few things are more important to me than optimization. And I know on some level you feel similarly. I quote you all the time when referring to this subject, "racing to idle." I'm not sure if that's exactly what you say, and I'm guessing the original idea isn't yours, but I give you full credit for presenting it to me that way.
As far as USB goes, maybe the 3.0 spec takes care of your concerns? I don't know?
But my opinion still stands: a modular cellular solution for the tablets is doable and practical. And I'm not saying that the trade-offs (if there are any) between modularity and power consumption are to be ignored. But I am speculating that if it's presently an issue, it can quickly become a non-issue with simple innovation.
I've already sacrificed a memory card, I'll offer up my keyboard instead.
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2009-04-26
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...other than observing friends, family, and coworkers), but I'd say very few people ever upgrade their computers. They're much more likely to simply purchase new machines.
Accepting that, how much sense do you think it would make for Nokia to make feature(s) like cellular data modular? Not much, I'd say. It's an awful large compromise to ask of the vast majority of users who will never, ever take advantage that modularity.
Let's propose something else. What if, instead of a costly (to the customer) modular option Nokia offered several different devices for the Maemo platform. Each with a different set of options, some lower-end, some higher (much like Nokia's current cellular phone lineup).
That way, you could pick the device that suits you (say, the lower-end $250 tablet without 3G, accelerometers, FM RX/TX, GPS, or a hardware keyboard etc.) and somebody else could pick the device that suits them ($600, all the fixin's, hardware keyboard, etc.) and you're both happy without having to deal with the modularity compromise (which is a big one to swallow on mobile devices).
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2009-04-26
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2009-04-26
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2009-04-26
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It saddens me that Nokia *seems* to be moving away from elements that made the tablets distinct and toward homogenization that would make them more or less like anyone else's offerings.
Nokia had a chance to create and seize a new market, and fumbled the ball... despite the evangelism of many inside the company in favor of pushing the tablets hard.
It later became extremely frustrating for me due to a singular event...
...In no time I was developing a web-based mobile auditing app with the tablets in mind. Unfortunately, VPN was not officially supported. A colleague in Finland cobbled up a rough gui vpn tool for internal use only and before long I had a working alpha of my vision: a means of freeing our product and delivery auditors to enter defects as they found them instead of trotting back to a desktop PC. My manager was ecstatic. This was working smart!
I blogged (internally) and emailed about the experience and pushed for an enterprise project to incorporate the 770 into our operations...
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USB 2.0 HSPA dongle IS TO netbook
WHAT
<power-conscience, small-device form factor> HSPA dongle IS TO tablet
Both my phone and my n8x0's have internal removable batteries and internal removable SD cards. Are you telling me one more small replaceable piece of internal hardware would be a big deal? You'd be kidding, right?
hard-wired HSPA device: not modular, kreepy
closed-source binary blob: modular, maybe less kreepy
N9: Go white or go home