With the new rumors flying today on much lower, pre-holiday prices for the Apple Touch plus the promised release of more powerful, fairly-reasonably priced MIDs due for broader release before the 4th Q, the market is definitely changing. I hope anything Nokia produces in future will be powerful enough to run Open Office (and bring back an SD slot). (For daily business use out of the office, I need something more portable than my larger, desktop replacement laptop. I need more than calendaring and parking work-related things on Google servers is a no-go due to security/hacking issues.) Personally, I'm waiting for the Gigabyte M528, but the Kohjinsha SC3 is getting very good reviews so I may change my mind again.

Caruso is a neat hack of an idea but, if I'm not mistaken, isn't it already being used in other modern processors? I thought the failure of selling Crusoe processors eventually led to the company mainly selling its patents to others who wanted to implement their techniques? I know they VERY recently sold some licenses to Sony (cell processors), NVIDIA, NEC for some of those technologies and that they have made some kind of 10-year patent deal to allow Intel to use their technologies, too. I wouldn't doubt that ARM might have eventually gone back over and made a license deal with them, too. I don't know that, though--I just imagine that the bumps up in ARM speeds in recent years might be one heck of a coincidence, maybe?

Remember that, under the classic model of how processors are designed, adding instructions to a processor means adding more silicon and metal to the processor which means an additional pathway for heat dissipation and/or power inefficiency. I'd rather that ARM/OMAP only bother adding instructions that don't really hurt performance and power.. and put more emphasis on tweaking up the processing speed (either electrically or by adding some smarter instructions--not necessarily for emulation's benefit).

I figure, in the end, you'll get emulation even if it's by software means without some special x86 hardware support.. any improvement in speed overall would help emulation along. My opinion is that I would rather have native apps perform better, as much as I love emulators.

iirc, current intel cpus do not do X86 natively. instead its broken down into micro-ops or something like that. basically, the X86 instruction set acts as a kind of abstraction...

Are touchscreen OLED screens possible?

i would think so...

Just multiply the price by a chosen number above 2...

Ok, given that this thread has like 116 pages, I'm not gonna go surfing for this answer, so I'll ask here in hopes that someone knows if this has been asked. But anyways, here goes.

Would it be possible to have a cellular network data link option on top of the WiMax connection for the n900? The idea is that in the absence of wifi and/or wimax, you could jump on your cellular provider's 3g or similar data network and get at least a low level data access. I know that the N810 has a bluetooth link to a cell phone that'll do essentially the same thing, but it's limited to Nokia phones, which is a bit limiting as well.

Just a thought.

Since when, exactly? Last I checked, DUN and PAN were pretty damn ubiquitous standards.

Works fine with a OLD Sony Ericsson, so I don't know what you are talking about...

I want to address one thing about the cellphone inside a NIT. We all agree that it would be bad because telco companies might place restrictions (like the iPhone), but another complaint is the

"I don't want to be stuck with 3G or 4G, because it is not upgradeable, thus I would like to pair with a phone over bluetooth so I can have the fastest internet connection."

Ok, the way the market is moving today, by the time 5G or full coverage of 4G comes to the market, I am 99.999% sure that you could buy a phone or MID or whatever that is cheaper and faster etc than a tablet. So why the hell would you use a tablet in the future, when the phone you are using to tether is BETTER than the tablet itself? Just does not make sense...

bluetooth is for more then just tethering

with skype or gizmo set up, and a handsfree paired, one can use the tablet as a desktop voip terminal.

i even found myself listening to a audio book using my handsfree the other day. as its talk rather then music, i dont need ad2p anyways.

then there are all those that use keyboards, from small collapsible ones on to full size apple and logitech ones, or even to connect the tablet to a car monitoring system (carman).