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Originally Posted by qole
Just be careful not to hit your nose when you shake your device.
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2009-05-29
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Originally Posted by Paxicide
I don't think they'd be there on the home screen. They'd be there in the application itself. It is a choice of the user to see advertisements or buy the application via a license, and I find this choice (while I'd like to know before I test/try an application) otherwise a fair choice.
Everytime I read all the post from the Nokia folks I could not help but think "Thou does protest too much!" and so I think they have confirmed our fears:smaller screen, no tablet anytime soon.
I dont want a small screen by either having advertisers taking it or having it physically reduced.
However, I did not see a similar poll before this announcement, or non-announcement, so its hard to compare consistency in our community wants.
Besides, ads can be blocked if they pass that thin line between funny/useful/informative and BLO.oDY IRRITATING
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2009-05-29
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Originally Posted by qole
I can just imagine the pick up lines that'd spawn ...
Oh come on, that's easy. It has an accelerometer! Just use the whole device like a Wiimote!
"hey, baby, I've got a wiimote in my pocket, wanna see?"
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2009-05-29
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Originally Posted by danramos
If its being billed as a high end device (upstaging the N97 - then I can bet it will have quad-band GSM and that should make it work with most carriers.
Unlocked doesn't mean that a particular handset's radio will work with every carrier.
Of course I dont know as much about Europe and Asia frequencies - but Quad band does cover most of the frequencies.
And like MobileDivide mentioned - most Nokia phones are always available unlocked as an option.
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2009-05-29
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Originally Posted by qole
Hey, so we would have a NokiaFit game to get all us geeks into shape ? Great, I am in as a customer
No, of course not. That's ridiculous. You have to hold it firmly between your two hands.
... and hop, bend, and weave around with your whole body!
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2009-05-29
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Originally Posted by qole
When I saw N800 and N810 I was asking myself how d_mb Nokia marketing can be to not put a 3G data at least and even voide on that nice tablets, because without those the tablet looses the big sales channel of the big-fat-rich operators. Now Nokia is back on track with this laptop-tablet-phone. And yes, this will be unique because of OpenOffice, big resolution and all the nice Linux and QT and KDE programs that can be ported.
your home TV around in your pocket.
... it really isn't a smartphone. For instance, it will run OpenOffice much more quickly than our current tablets. Yes, I said OpenOffice. Do you know any smartphones that can run full desktop versions of popular office suites?
I was saving for N97, that has a very nice form with the screen-tilt, but just 128 MB RAM and symbian OS, and I prefer to wait a little longer and get this Maemo beauty with 256 MB.
Does anybody know when this device will be released? In the leaked information it was June-July, but also they talk about a possible delay. When will be this device out?
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2009-05-29
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I think it's a great idea, but would probably need specific hardware support. The problem, as I see it, is that the picture would be very, very dark with your thumb over the camera.
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2009-05-29
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Originally Posted by benny1967
I am sort of repeating myself, but that is one of the funny things about this remarkable thread. Those of us who support the current screen size are in a way just repeating the things we have been saying for years -- one of the wonderful things about the Nokia tablets is the screen size.
How are these two issues related?
The ad would be on your home screen only and not be visible when you start an application. - Also, as seen from the concept screenshot, it would only be part of a panable screen area, so it wouldn't even always be visible. Plus, you could choose a non-subsidized phone without an ad if it really annoys you.
A smaller screen doesn't suddenly get larger when you start an application. You also cant make it bigger by paying the full price.
So what's the point you're trying to make?
But suddenly a bunch of people are jumping in and saying that this is bs, screen size is not important, reading on a tablet is not important, these are just niche items. And THEY are claiming to support Nokia now.
In some ways, these esteemed people are talking like they have conferenced and developed talking points to use against the supporters of the Nokia Internet Tablet as we knew it. It's kind of like political threads, in which people use pre-rehearsed arguments, obviously having learned the technique from Communist Party propaganda techniques back in the 1950s, even if they weren't around then.
Those of us who have supported Nokia here also have our talking points too, because we have been arguing for the Nokia Internet Tablet for years. But it's strange that there are so many of these aliens now.
(Disclaimer: I have nothing against aliens. It's those antennae that I find disconcerting.)
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Originally Posted by geneven
Nokia Internet Tablet Users have been pay to play beta testers for years. I just kind of assumed this hard work would pay off some day. Well perhaps I should rephrase that, pay off some day for me. I am hoping this is still all just bad information..Those of us who have supported Nokia here also have our talking points too, because we have been arguing for the Nokia Internet Tablet for years
We have always been a vocal group. I seriously wonder though, if the phone community can really handle an internet tablet and all its wonderful flaws. I'll give you the 810 is very stable now, but there was flakiness first firmware release. Now updates can be done on the fly, but now your phone is subject to your Internet tablets problems. Install something wrong I can live without my tablet until its repaired, reflashed whatever, but will I still be able to call for help if my internet tablet phone does not boot?
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Originally Posted by geneven
Wow. I can't think of a more perfect example of a paranoid rant than that.
I am sort of repeating myself, but that is one of the funny things about this remarkable thread. Those of us who support the current screen size are in a way just repeating the things we have been saying for years -- one of the wonderful things about the Nokia tablets is the screen size.
But suddenly a bunch of people are jumping in and saying that this is bs, screen size is not important, reading on a tablet is not important, these are just niche items. And THEY are claiming to support Nokia now.
In some ways, these esteemed people are talking like they have conferenced and developed talking points to use against the supporters of the Nokia Internet Tablet as we knew it. It's kind of like political threads, in which people use pre-rehearsed arguments, obviously having learned the technique from Communist Party propaganda techniques back in the 1950s, even if they weren't around then.
Those of us who have supported Nokia here also have our talking points too, because we have been arguing for the Nokia Internet Tablet for years. But it's strange that there are so many of these aliens now.
(Disclaimer: I have nothing against aliens. It's those antennae that I find disconcerting.)
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