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2009-05-25 , 19:24
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
You're forgetting one of the biggest use cases of all - cellular voice. Once the decision was made to include cellular voice (whether due to the Pre or otherwise), the 3.5" screen makes sense. How many GSM phones have displays larger than 3.5? - very few.
I think you've got me wrong.. I was talking about what my current usecases are with my trusty N800. Now try to imagine doing this on a smaller screen. Just right now i don't even use Skype on it (boy, I would kill for a teamspeak client...)

I was speaking in terms of a new "InternetTablet" not a smartphone. That this class of devices got smaller screes than N8x0 isn't that new to me ;-)

Maybe I should have said this in my previous post :-)

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2009-05-25 , 19:27
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#182
Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing View Post
Now, I'm making peace with MULLF. He just made the perfect add-on-gadget suggestion for Maemo-devices with screen sizes smaller then 4.1 inch. Gotta call our product designers...
If your product designers can make a magnifier that I can reach through with a stylus to tap the screen below, I'll take back everything I ever said about them hiding my D-pad.
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2009-05-25 , 19:29
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#183
I am really confused.

I dont believe the rx-51 has gsm capability. We should have surely known if it had. No doubt. I have been following the tablets since 770 and never this big a thing was a surprise. So i really think the gsm part is just a rumour.
If that is true, the screen size doesnt make sense. What is the point of having a gsm less device of that size when you already have many competitors including the n97 with same size and gsm.So i would assume the screen size also to be wrong. But all the support for the screen size from the nokia guys shows that there is some thing in the pipe for a maemo phone in the future.

Lets see
 
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2009-05-25 , 19:31
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#184
It has sparked lots of interest in what was a slowly dying hardware field. Who knows, maybe its free market research. Leak to the community and see how well it goes down before deciding on which device to lead with. The smaller screen gets more new market purchases and Nokia already know they have the current owners on board for a proper tablet. Launching with a phone may do the world of good for maemo. This is the test to find out how much fuss the community kicks up about it. So hopefully the proper NIT will follow shortly. Maybe I'm just being optimistic though.
 
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Actually, it's thanks to Nokia and the Maemo SW team for putting Linux under the hood of these devices.
[qole sarcasm]Yeah, 'cause their kernel alternatives were so nice and plentiful.[/qole sarcasm]

Let's name them: Palm, Symbian and WinMo.

They had no choice.
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2009-05-25 , 19:32
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(I moderated the tags. They were gratuitous and had little to do with this post.)

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2009-05-25 , 19:40
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
... Then, they put a zoomy big-button interface on it all and say that should fix things.
As I said previously, I'm resting my case. But no, I'm not trying to claim that the new UI design would make screens bigger for apps used in full screen mode. As admitted, bigger is better for many of the use cases that the current Internet Tablets are used for by people in this thread. I recognise this and appreciate the active community.

I'm done for today. Spent already plenty of time on discussing about Maemo 5. I spent especially too much time here considering that we haven't even said what which Maemo device will be. Hopefully I could clarify a little bit for the community what we have said publicly about Maemo 5 and the purpose of Maemo in the future.
 

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2009-05-25 , 19:42
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Thread winner.

Originally Posted by Aisu View Post
Nokia has reunited the whole Maemo community by really, really pissing all of us off
 
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2009-05-25 , 19:43
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Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing View Post
As I said previously, I'm resting my case. But no, I'm not trying to claim that the new UI design would make screens bigger for apps used in full screen mode. As admitted, bigger is better for many of the use cases that the current Internet Tablets are used for by people in this thread. I recognise this and appreciate the active community.

I'm done for today. Spent already plenty of time on discussing about Maemo 5. I spent especially too much time here considering that we haven't even said what which Maemo device will be. Hopefully I could clarify a little bit for the community what we have said publicly about Maemo 5 and the purpose of Maemo in the future.
is there a hint in there?
 

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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Alas, this explanation does not address two very common uses for the current N8x0 tablets:

1. Reading books (with FBReader)
2. Watching movies
3. Reading anything (an email, a web page, an IM conversation, the PDF manual, an ssh session to a server several timezones away...)
4. Looking at maps
5. Handwritten notes
 
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