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2009-11-09
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Originally Posted by philwil
Reeeheeally? How hackable has it been so far? Have you tried to root it and muck about in ssh? I've been seriously contemplating one.
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2009-11-09
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I think your chance of seeing an n820 are about the same as seeing a n900
That is next to zero
That is next to zero
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2009-11-17
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If not Nokia, then somebody will...
The N810 is at the extreme end of the netbook range whereas the N900 is something else, a really, really smart phone. They aren't the same thing even if they do a lot of the same stuff. As I see it, the N810 trades off just enough netbook capability to get barely under the "carry all the time" threshold for a reasonable number of people. I mean, if it were any bigger or heavier, it wouldn't be sitting in a pouch on my belt. I bet a lot of people already think the N810 is way too big and heavy. As others have mentioned, it's already too big to really use as a phone. If it were any smaller then it wouldn't be able to browse the web decently; it would just be a lousy VoIP phone. But, it hits that sweet spot for me; the ultimate (so far) in mobile computing, at least for the price.
Can the N810 be improved without losing this sweet spot? Maybe, a new high-sensitivity GPS chip might be nice. A little more RAM, a little more CPU power, with the same or better battery life. But, right now, it's running all the apps I want, it carries around 16Gb of media on a tiny (replaceable) chip, it lets me watch movies, browse the web, figure out where I am... It's a journal, email client, a calendar, it syncs with Google, I can tether it to my phone (if I weren't too cheap to pay for a data plan instead of poaching WiFi). It works with my ODBII reader to figure out why the trouble-light has gone off on my car. It's my alarm clock... I use it to remote-desktop to my servers at work; I code in Perl with it. For it's size, it's an awesome general purpose computer. But, if the screen were any smaller, then it just wouldn't work with applications not specifically written for a small-screen format. Could you imagine trying to remote-desktop to another computer with anything smaller than the N810? The N810 screen is just barely big enough. Make it smaller, like the N900, and you lose "general purpose" functionality. I'm sure the N900 is a totally-awesome phone, with the ability to do some amazing things, but I suspect the screen is just too small to do a lot of regular-computer stuff.
If you think of it this way, then, yes, sure there will be a successor to the N810. There will always be devices at the extreme end of the netbook spectrum, a pocket computer that's "just" big enough and "just" small enough. Will Nokia develop this? I hope so, they did a damn fine job on the N810.
David...
The N810 is at the extreme end of the netbook range whereas the N900 is something else, a really, really smart phone. They aren't the same thing even if they do a lot of the same stuff. As I see it, the N810 trades off just enough netbook capability to get barely under the "carry all the time" threshold for a reasonable number of people. I mean, if it were any bigger or heavier, it wouldn't be sitting in a pouch on my belt. I bet a lot of people already think the N810 is way too big and heavy. As others have mentioned, it's already too big to really use as a phone. If it were any smaller then it wouldn't be able to browse the web decently; it would just be a lousy VoIP phone. But, it hits that sweet spot for me; the ultimate (so far) in mobile computing, at least for the price.
Can the N810 be improved without losing this sweet spot? Maybe, a new high-sensitivity GPS chip might be nice. A little more RAM, a little more CPU power, with the same or better battery life. But, right now, it's running all the apps I want, it carries around 16Gb of media on a tiny (replaceable) chip, it lets me watch movies, browse the web, figure out where I am... It's a journal, email client, a calendar, it syncs with Google, I can tether it to my phone (if I weren't too cheap to pay for a data plan instead of poaching WiFi). It works with my ODBII reader to figure out why the trouble-light has gone off on my car. It's my alarm clock... I use it to remote-desktop to my servers at work; I code in Perl with it. For it's size, it's an awesome general purpose computer. But, if the screen were any smaller, then it just wouldn't work with applications not specifically written for a small-screen format. Could you imagine trying to remote-desktop to another computer with anything smaller than the N810? The N810 screen is just barely big enough. Make it smaller, like the N900, and you lose "general purpose" functionality. I'm sure the N900 is a totally-awesome phone, with the ability to do some amazing things, but I suspect the screen is just too small to do a lot of regular-computer stuff.
If you think of it this way, then, yes, sure there will be a successor to the N810. There will always be devices at the extreme end of the netbook spectrum, a pocket computer that's "just" big enough and "just" small enough. Will Nokia develop this? I hope so, they did a damn fine job on the N810.
David...
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