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2007-12-06 , 13:56
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the "hardware keyboard" answer for NITs is to include that laser-projected one, that shines a full keyboard onto any surface.
 
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2007-12-06 , 15:24
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the "hardware keyboard" answer for NITs is to include that laser-projected one, that shines a full keyboard onto any surface.
Have you ever used one of those? I have, and compared to that laser abomination, a thumbboard is a joy to use. Not only do you have no tactile feedback, but the driver software gets so often confused that you quickly resort to two finger pecking. Forget touch typing, unless you have the muscle control of a Jedi master.
 
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2007-12-06 , 16:53
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
IMHO, the best road forward vor the Itablets would be the minimalist track: Take out the GPS, the hardware keyboard, even the camera and just leave us with a platform like the 770: CPU, screen and memory.
And get rid of all hardware with closed-source drivers.
 
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2007-12-06 , 17:31
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Originally Posted by pdonner View Post
Waiting for a 4GB MiniSD so I can actually attempt to do something with the N810 I have. Hopefully the 8GB units will be available for sale soon.
The 8GB cards are available now... as microSD (from Sandisk).
 
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2007-12-06 , 17:55
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If you don't need camera, keyboard and GPS, N770 is still available somewhere cheap.
 
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2007-12-06 , 18:18
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Originally Posted by cyberghost View Post
If you don't need camera, keyboard and GPS, N770 is still available somewhere cheap.
The 770 is also slow as all get-out.
 
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2007-12-06 , 18:58
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Originally Posted by pdonner View Post
The other thing about the sensitivity is that if I leave the unit in the window, stationary, the individual satellite signal levels go up and down very quickly (each sat varies differently).
Is gpsd being used in OS2008? If so, any idea which version? (I don't have one to check myself.) This sounds vaguely similar to a problem with early versions of gpsd that caused rapid oscillations between "fix" and "no fix".

One would think that Nokia has a bit of experience with designing effective antennas - it would be a bit surprising if that was the problem. Isn't the Wifi sensitivity pretty good on the ITs?
 
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2007-12-06 , 20:09
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Isn't the Wifi sensitivity pretty good on the ITs?
Everybody keeps saying that, while I don't find it much better than the other wireless adapters I have.
 
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2007-12-06 , 21:41
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Yes they are using GPSD but not sure which version.

Wifi is "alright". Not terribly sensitive but given the power contraints of this devices it is acceptable. Need to figure out how to hook up a cantenna to the N810 ;-)

To the person who suggests the 8G micro SDs are available. I went to their site but haven't found one vendor pointed to by the site to have them available. I have seen a lot of placeholders for them.

If you have a live pointer, send away....
 
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2007-12-06 , 21:53
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Originally Posted by luca View Post
Everybody keeps saying that, while I don't find it much better than the other wireless adapters I have.
It has the best transceiver of all the wireless devices I own. It's not better by a landslide, but just simply the best. I get 20 m reception in a house with 30 cm thick brick walls; I call that not too shabby. (the Pepper Pad 3 comes in second with about 5 m less)

And yes, the walls in our house really are that thick.
 
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