I've been writing DSP code using openly available documentation for the past 3 years or so. Some aspects are not currently available (mainly existing code - e.g. the EAP headers to allow direct audio output from the DSP, but if someone spends a bit of time with IDAPro I'm sure they could work out how to set up a link to that driver).

The information about getting started doing this programming is all there in the wiki (Programming the DSP) and the mailing list, or just ask me (or see my presentation at the Summit). I've recently restarted work on the dsp-tremor project (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/dsp-tremor/), so if you're interested please take a look.

Sorry for the canned advert, but as I don't use OGG Vorbis, it would be motivational if other people were also contributing, otherwise I'll get bored again and go do something else...

hahahaha ... but still the best

better than the others still, yes. but i'm really impatient and want to spend money on a new gadget.

Same here, will be nice to have (I hope) working OpenGL to play with, and a DSP that doesn't have 16bit chars! Come on Nokia, give us something new and cool to play with

There's no such thing as 'OS2009' and Maemo is always capitalized (but maemo.org is not). The next release of Maemo will be Maemo 5.

so they are dropping the OS designations?

if so, thank god. as trying to figure out what version number to use in a bug report is a *****

Well, uh, yes and no, I suppose. Internet Tablet OS is deprecated in favor of Maemo n.

Well, that isn't really affected by the OS2005-OS2008 designation. Versioning between the OS and the SDK is now shared. So Diablo is Maemo 4.1 (and the first SSU release is 4.1.1). Just be sure to remember to include the build string in your bug reports (4.2008.30-2).

You bite your tongue! I repurchased an N800 because I really liked that particular model a lot.

Ribbing aside, I do agree. I am quite willing and open to being impressed by a newer model. Though, at this rate, I might end up opening up to a Pandora box first. I'm pretty disappointed that the newer model for this year, the N810, has a CPU that is barely faster than the N800's, no added memory and the move to the tinier SD cards and a lack of a second slot. The internal flash just doesn't do it for me. I already had that experience with the Palm Tungsten T5 and it's insufficiently unexpandable that way. At least it has GPS built in.. but I'm surprised that wasn't even in the N800, considering this is Nokia (cell phones and gps go together very often) and there had already been a 770 tablet before that. Still, better late than never but from what I'm hearing, the built-in GPS is nothing to write home about.

If Nokia puts out another tablet, it needs to impress me a few hundred dollars worth to make be purchase a newer model.. not spare change different enough to hope I'll want the newer thing.

Sorry to maybe sound ranty.. but I'm a picky geek power-user consumer and I play with too many gadgets to not be really critical but I'm trying to be constructive with my criticisms.

Anyway--yeah.. need something with just a teeny bit more oomph, there. Also, want a clamshell design to protect keyboard and screen. Want.

Where do you get your information? . . .

A few notes of historical interest: You want to know when we knew the N800 was coming out? About 2 days before release. You want to know when we knew anything interesting about the N810 (aside from the spy-shots which many people thought were actually of an S60 device)? The day Nokia announced it and released the specs.

Point being, Nokia is much like Apple in its tight-lipped approach to hardware. The OMAP3 is really only now starting to sample in any real numbers, and you can be sure that even though they haven't announced anything, Nokia hasn't been sitting on its laurels.

Umm... the N810 isn't the "newer model for this year". It's the "newer model for last year".