hey,
we all know you guys are passionate about the tablets and their capabilities now, but what would you like to see in the future.
By the future I mean the real thing, Nokia has Harmattan pressed for the next schedule, but whats to come after that?
Assume all the capacitive/resistive/rotationy/toolkit/battery technical details are sorted and we have a battery that lasts all day, what and where are our tablets going to be?


for me, I'd like to see my devices seamlessly adapt themselves so when I sit down and everything is there and I'm logged in and all my software is available with properly configured to just as I like it.
this should be wherever I am, on the train or bus or in someone elses office or just chilling at home I want to have maeStuff near me


what about you?

Well, not going to be original here: In short, I would like to see Maemo power StarTrek-like PADD devices of various sizes. In fact, I would like the difference in size stop being a deciding factor: you should be able to walk into a store and choose from variety of different sizes, all running the same software on pretty much the same hardware.

At this rate of development, I expect to see the n910 in 2015. My n800 with 128GB of sd storage will still be functioning. While I wait . . .

They're going to be embedded in my contacts, in my glasses, or in the panel on my arm...

leinir o_O but what will you be doing with them?
x-ray glasses or just a regular hud?
do your driving with it directly?

Speculating about the hardware platform is a bit irrelevant, as it is just that, speculation.

That being said, the software platform is where the community can work its magic. We can define the boundaries of the path Maemo will take.

I would like to see the device being powered up for real "business" use. Playing Quake 3 on it is nice and all, but really, does that help me convince IT to buy them in bulk? Not really.

What would make it interesting for the businesses that put money in these devices would be to have it prime ready for heavy emailing (and that means, not having to wait 30+ to read an email after receiving the notification you just got an email), easy answering and immediate, hyper-responsive User Interfaces.

Glued to that, support all the major meeting-makers formats (there's not that many), so that people can switch seamlessly from their corporate phone to their N900, and that they never have to look back. All the time people are struggling to do the most basic things on their BlackBerry's, yet, I didn't leave my corporate SIM card in the N900, not because I don't absolutely love it, but because it doesn't support BES, and the Microsoft Exchange integration is dodgy as hell.

Maybe in 5 or 10 years -- provided the platform survives -- we will have multiple flavours of Maemo. The business oriented one, versus the teen-facebook-addict one. Or maybe, we'll just have "themes", but instead of having those themes define presets of colours and icons, they'll allow us to easily switch between the different use cases of the device.

One desktop be a personal one, with links to one's music, one's movies and whatever social media it is they like. Another desktop would allow them to have easy access to their boss's incendiary emails, and the last desktop would give them access to their families, instantly. For each of these desktops, the application menu would be different, and how the applications interact with each other would change based on the "profile" currently selected.

5, 10 years, will mark the greatest changes in User Experiences. People will start realising that the way they've been using their phones and computers is archaic, and maybe the majority of users will start understanding what we've been screaming all along.

There you go lcuk. Enough ranting for you?

I'm like Lcuk, in that I want better and more importantly intelligent integration between my device(s) and my environments.

I would like one device to be a central hub for all my converged information and media

When I am out walking the dog or cycling (or whatever), it will have maps available, play music and rout calls though my bluetooth headphones. When I get to the car it needs to automatically connect to the internal car router and wireless for internet access - maps which should have a learning mode of favorite locations, deciding which one is likely based on the day and time and calendar entries, downloading smart traffic info for the route etc. It would also then re-route music and calls through the in-car system.

When I am at home, and watching TV, I want my tablet and DVR to communicate, and for my DVR to pull information and updates I want such as news, friend updates, etc from my tablet and overlay them onto the screen I am watching. If I am at my desk I want to be able to hook my tablet up to a large screen and full size keyboard and use it like a full on desktop or laptop system.

There is quite a lot there which is doable now with the hardware we have. The software would take a bit of work though, and I think it would take another couple of software generations to get there though.

my future internet device will be a receptacle for my spirit with some classical cpu/gpu to simulate a body and world

Hopefully that reseach on battery power (can't find the link at the moment) will be good enough to provide the promised batteries that can last a month... that way we can use our devices how we want to without trying to ration battery power.

And we'll all have flying cars

Ok. At what resolution? Will 256x192x16 do? =)