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Is there any indication as to whether one or both models will sport "always on" connectivity (cellular data)?

Did the alpha SDK expose an API for an accelerometer? What about the new HD camera? I know people found the drivers in the kernel, but has there been any way for developers in high-level languages like Python to use these devices? Can I use a GStreamer pipeline to take video with the new HQ camera, just like I did with the old webcam? Is it V4L2 compliant?

I can think of so many cool ideas for an accelerometer, especially coupled with a camera and a GPS. You will know where you are, how fast you are going, what kind of G-forces you are experiencing... Very nice.

Or even better, you can use your device as the ultimate construction tool! Quickly map out property lines with the GPS, use the camera, GPS, and accelerometer (bubble level) as a fantastic survey tool (laser level anyone?)...

I can just see it. You hold up your device, the camera shows you a live feed of the landscape in front of you, and the device uses the accelerometer to overlay an artificial horizon and vertical. Then your co-worker adjusts the fence post until it is aligned with the vertical on your screen, and you shout, "That's it! Hold it there!"

You can probably also use the camera, accelerometer and GPS to get fairly accurate distance measurements to any object you can see. You point the camera at an object, get the device level using the accelerometer, select the object on your touch screen, then walk a few paces and repeat the process. The device can then triangulate the object's location and give you an accurate distance.

I bet you could even overlay text on the camera's feed from Google maps, Wikipedia, etc, like some kind of Borg heads-up display... Point the device at an old building in an unfamiliar town, and the device will tell you all about it.

If, say, you wanted to go to a museum in Berlin, instead of (hypothetically) wandering around the museum district for hours, you could have the device guide you directly there by actually overlaying your route on the video feed from the camera. A big line would go right down the street in front of you, just like on Google Street View.

But I would like the simple things too, like a little game where you have to roll a ball around a maze by tilting your device.

If you're going to speculate, you should at least be familiar with what we know.

Ha! With >50 meters accuracy? Fat chance.

Neverball may not be as little as you were thinking, but anyway this is one of the games I hope to see in maemo device. (Opengl vs Opengl ES could be an obstacle here)

mikkov: I think you've found a way to make yourself a Maemo 5 Hero

I don't know about all those N800 users wanting to have their stylus keyboard and finger it too ... (cheesy line there :-) but as a N810 user, if there is a HWKB then I wonder if you will want to use the stylus keyboard at all ?

I mean why bother taking out a stylus and tapping (pecking) away at small keys on the screen without any feedback (ok, maybe there will be haptic feedback) when you might as well slide out the HWKB and type away happily.

On my N810 - I have never (NEVER) started the stylus keyboard - maybe sometimes the finger keyboard, but am generally faster on the HWKb than anything else.

If you didn't want to bring out an additional input device (stylus or HWKB), then simple use your fingers.

So with the new Nokia tablet - if the HWKB is built in would you still want a onscreen stylus keyboard ? It isnt THAT much necessary - except to die-hard stylus fans.
And mind you, this is not a debate between having a stylus or not - but between having a HWKB and an OSSKB (on screen stylus keyboard).

In between these 2 choices the finger keyboard seems to fit in fine without that conflict - since that is only for situations when you don't want to slide out anything at all and quickly type something.

Well as a speclation - how about a super sexy HWKB like that speculated keyboard where a thin panel slides out and the keys raise out of the flat surface to allow typing and then retract again after use ? I think that was mentioned in some article about Nokia's future products or something.

@Nokia

nilchak and I have decided that there needs to be 2 different OMAP3 devices. One for me and one for him. We can talk about the OS later, but we both want to make sure that you get the hardware right first. Please let us know the deadline for our design documents. Thanks in advance.

I want nilchak's device. That daperl guy? The one driving the joystick car? He wants his own special design.

Well, I can always add a BT steering wheel later. And since my device would have less on it, I think I should pay less.