Good news, exactly what I was expecting !

(that, and the videoconferencing+whiteboard-sharing, of course :-)

Bluetooth Profiles. I want to be able to use my n810 as a hands free unit for my phone in my car. if you search my posts you'll see why. I integrated my n810 as my in car media center. I want to be able to make and answer calls from it as well. THis includes making sure that when someone is talking, and it comes over my car speakers, the n810 knows it and doesnt send it back to the person that is talking...... (this might be slightly confusing)

im not so sure. yes is a impressive tech demo, but so far i have found it of limited utility (fbreader is a better book reader, and my handwriting makes using the sketch app as a notepad worthless).

what you described there is more or less a os...

the feature collection is so vast and varied that one is better of having multiple, specialized apps running inside a ui that makes it simple for the user to jump between them and share data as needed.

and most of it is covered by existing apps iirc.

one bothersome detail tho, facebook no longer see microb as a valid browser. but swap the user-agent to something more "mainstream" and it works, altho a bit slow thanks to some heavy use of javascript...

heh, latest pidgin even has support for the facebook im system.

but then i prefer to use mytube (wish there was a way to redirect youtube links to it from within microb) vs canola youtube plugin, media player or youamp vs canloa music and kmplayer vs canola video.

why? because they are slimmer, more focused apps for the task they do, and i can launch any one of them directly off personal menu or personal launcher.

panucci is moving nicely in that direction:
http://panucci.garage.maemo.org/

and i think it was said that the media player in fremantle would have the ability to remember how far in a file one had listened.

Wouldn't VLC be a good candidate ?

[mode=devils_advocate]No; we can use a framework like GStreamer instead.

Nokia doesn't touch OGG Vorbis/Theora for patent related reasons.

The proprietary/patented codecs we can in theory license from Fluendo although for Linux these are ported to x86 and x86-64; not to e.g. ARM[/mode]

Audio codecs will run on the ARM on the next device so this is not a real problem any more.

Afaik the DSP audio codecs weren't able to report back their stream position, which is probably why things like this were left alone for the current tablets.

explains why youamp could not get it working with mp3, but does not explain how panucci manages to do it...

The position thing?

Well the ARM-side part of the code can report how far into the file data has been read to be passed to the DSP in a buffer. The precision depends on the buffer size.