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2008-03-14
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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I would love to use this, the ability to carry a full laptop with you wherever you go is pretty sweet as it is but the ability to output to a large display is very cool. I would definitely use this to type notes etc. As it is my XP tablet is on its last legs and I was thinking about getting a Macbook, but its developments like this that make me think I should just buy a Mac Pro desktop and skip out on the whole laptop thing altogether.
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2008-03-14
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@ South Bend, Indiana
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It's nice, but what does it do for the video problems with the built-in screen?
Also, I didn't buy an Itablet so that I could hook it up to a big screen; I bought it specifically not to hook it up to a big screen, because of its brilliant native screen. Of course, that was before I found out Nokia fixed it so that I could in many cases never use that brilliant screen to its full potential.
This is the same con Nokia keeps playing: Maemo has no decent HWR, but instead of developing/buying something usable, they bolt a keyboard on an "upgraded" model and claim they're veering away from the stylus-based input model.
Itablets have problems displaying video? Don't fix that! Just make them display video perfectly on an external screen. That'll shut the stupid users up.
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2008-03-14
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@ St. Petersburg, FL
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2008-03-14
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@ Bochum, Germany
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I don't exactly get the hype here. Basically this is a slightly more advanced form of video-out, for high-resolution displays.
My Archos PMA430 did Svideo-out three years ago and the Pandora will do sVideo-out at 800x480. It's nice that Nokia's solution has DVI and Sub-VGA options, but for a lowest common denominator (and isn't that what you're looking for with a portable device?) nothing pretty much beats good old Svideo.
Oh, and on the full HD issue: Exactly how many HD movies are you going to fit on that single microSD card on your N810?
And finally: Yes, people. All this was done in Bochum, only seconds before Nokia axed the place!
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2008-03-14
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@ norway
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2008-03-14
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@ Po' Bo'. PA
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Yes, you can now see the lack of decent productivity software on a much larger screen.
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2008-03-14
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@ Czech Republic
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2008-03-14
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@ norway
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The pressure now will be on Nokia to provide a usable Exchange client.
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2008-03-14
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@ Bochum, Germany
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ah, so thats the troublemaker for local playback. so far i had only read comments about some internal design issue.
that makes it kinda interesting, even if it means bringing along the N800, usb hub, usb drive and connector, 3 of those needing their own power adapter, to show a suitably long video in HD...
i guess the best bit is that one can with this turn the N800 into a web terminal of sorts for the desktop
hell, one gnumeric and abiword get really going i guess one could replace many a home computer with a N800 hooked up like that.
Can you comment on the chances of getting OpenGL ?