That site has more advertisement than content.

Talking about the hardware keyboard

I liked this new design - with a nice pointer on the keyboard itself

http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/3...-a-sexy-piece/

Yeah, thanks for the reminder. I gotta unlink from that guy.

Oh God, yes.

When I was looking at using the 770 or N800 as a mobile auditing tool (inside Nokia of all places ), my boss asked two things:

- can it scan? read: bar codes, RFID, etc
- can it take pictures?

I had to reply no, but that wasn't a showstopper. Our status quo mode (auditor walking around with pencil and clipboard, with access to a shared camera, who later re-entered findings into stationary PC) didn't have any such integration either.

I started lobbying for the sort of solutions you're mentioning, Benson, but I was met with this:

No industrial intentions for product.

Now, you're not talking industrial. You're smartly saying that even consumer products can benefit from modularity. But I'm still thinking: why NOT an industrial variant? Ruggedized, larger gripping area, card-swap capability, etc. I *know* there is a market.

So I still don't get it. There's this huge untapped market for the tablet tech just sitting there, begging to be filled. In fact if I'd managed this product line I would have gone there first. Think of the sheer number of hours that would have been put into field-testing. Nokia could have focused on a select few commercial apps (inventory, auditing, etc) which could have been ported over from existing Linux apps. Better yet, just focus on the web capabilities since many such applications are net-based nowadays anyway.

Hardcore Linux geeks would have gladly bought these industrial devices and gone to town on them. By the time Nokia was ready for a consumer variant (aka Now) the virtual lifecycle of the product(s) could have been much longer, ie providing more feedback for further R&D.

Crap, I just wrote a blog article outside my blog...

Wrong. It is going to be using some ARM-based SoC, most likely the same as 5800. Anyone from Nokia willing to tell us what this SoC is? I hope it is not breaking anyone's NDA as one can just as well open the phone and check.

Well, this at least means you will be able to use it for phone calls

Just say that the guy is a cybersquatter and an AdWords "performance optimizer".

Remember this thread? I had mostly forgotten it till I started looking for some stuff I wrote about modular cell technology in handheld devices.

Even though the Xoom isn't pocketable, and it's using a bus technology you won't find in a handheld, I still say "Eat Me" to the naysayers:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...blet-to-4g.ars