I have seen this presentation and it was very short. Dr. Ari Jaaksi didn't give any details on when the new devices will come out and how they will look like. He only said that they will have HSPA, but no voice. Every other piece of information is on his Powerpoint slides.

More interesting:

On the conference floor I heard that someone from Nokia has asked for permission to present a board prototype of this 5th generation of Maemo device at the Maemo summit next Friday here in Berlin. I hope that's true and try to be there. Maybe they are refering to Nokia's Yannick Pellet who will give a "sneak preview" this Friday.


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It's not.

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDef...14112,00.html#

I should add a caveat: I do expect bandwidth and latency to be issues for some customers, at least in the short term. As more resource-demanding packets demand attention, more will be lost or delayed where there are still significant bottlencks.

Going forward, in general I see the employment opportunities to be in:

-fiber. Still lots to roll out (a la Verizon in the US)

-switches/hubs. Still too much legacy equipment in the mix. Upgrades are still required.

-service. As usual. And current service people need retraining.

-writing. Hey, someone has to communicate all this stuff to the masses.

I have six minutes of the Q&A as video and upload it now to Youtube. 143 MB take a lot of time. Unfortunately I didn't capture the entire presentation because I was busy taking notes.


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the only good thing I would say about this is alot of people use att and other plans that don't allow tething to phones if we would be able to get smart phone plans for our internet that run like $20 to $30 unlimited then that will be better then the teathering plans out there now that are like $60 for 5GB.

Don't be so sure. ATT has the "MediaNet" plan for their "dumb" phones and the PDAConnect plan for tethering or smart phones. Having a smart device is just as pricey as tethering fees. The only time they've disallowed tethering is with the iPhone (insert big ugly rant of how this Mac-user feels that the Apple iPhone is proof that Apple no longer gives a crap about it's customers and developers).

I've been down the all-in-one road for a few years, but have since switched to a Nokia 6550 and an N800 tablet. It's much nicer. The phone is small, durable, has a good battery life, and goes everywhere. The tablet (without the cell-stuff) was low-cost, has a nice big screen, and I can BT connect without pulling the phone from my pocket. Separate is a much nicer arrangement.

Besides, when a device uses a cellular service, every firmware update has to be vetted by that service to make sure it doesn't "abuse" the network. Additional delays to hardware and software acceptance is NOT a happy thing. I'll be happy with last-years tech on my locked-down cellphone while I play with a modern, constantly-updated, open tablet.

Yah...toss my vote in for being very apprehensive about hspa integration.

- Jim

So, probably will have to go and get a N900 :-) On the down side, HSPA means a cell contract? That kinda sucks... Let's hope that the SIP stack gets fixed for VPN connections before the launch of the new tablets :-)

HSPA means the ability to have a provider; not all providers require contracts, and you don't have to get one to start using it; it should operate just fine with WiFi and BT like the current tablets.

Texrat love your post http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...2&postcount=86 it was quite enlightening. VOIP looking more like the senior jock that's likeable instead of a geeky brother.

Kinda reminds me of this.

Hmmm....