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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by Texrat
Why would you need any more than 5 Megapixels, anyway? When my old 5 MP camera died, I bought the modern day equivalent, and 8.1 MP model, and promptly turned the resolution down to 5 MP. If you aren't going to make the photo into a poster, 5 MP is fine.
I doubt it. Who expects 5 mpix on a Nokia internet tablet? Where is the precedent? I don't see the first implementation of a forward camera for internet tablets as disappointing with a "mere" 5 mpix. But maybe we need a poll...?
I'd rather the N900 NOT have a highres camera. I'd rather have a camera designed to be a good CAMERA, and simply have a webcam on the N900.
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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by ragnar
Only if you consider the touchscreen primarily as an input device. For output purposes certain types of applications (eg microb, modest, osso_pdfviewer, fbreader, maemo mapper) would definitely benefit from having a few extra pixels, especially in non-fullscreen mode.
On a touch screen the critical value is the physical size of the screen. If a screen is n centimeters wide, I don't really think the pixel resolution makes much a difference at all. A button needs to be a certain width in order to hit it. Even though you could draw a desktop UI with increased resolution, you couldn't really use it.
The current pixel density isn't too high either - there have been devices with higher DPI for a while, including some from Nokia (E60, E70, N80 & N90) and 1000x600 at the same physical dimensions would approximately match the DPI of the Neo/Freerunner displays which are still quite readable.
I appreciate the cost reasons for keeping 800x480 and can live with it, but I would also be willing to pay a premium for higher resolution.
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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
Er, sorry, I was addressing the "Nokia didn't let you use the information at first" rather than the "Nokia used the accelerometers for image stabilization".
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2008-12-11
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Hm, anyone know what exactly drivers/misc/cmt-speech is?
Code:
config SSI_CMT_SPEECH
tristate "CMT speech driver"
depends on OMAP_SSI
---help---
If you say Y here, you will enable the CMT speech driver.
This driver provides a simple interface for the user space speech
protocol implementation to communicate with the cellular engine over
the SSI bus.
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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by lma
So the N900 can say "Not so fricken hard!" when you get a little too aggressive with the stylus.
Hm, anyone know what exactly drivers/misc/cmt-speech is?
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2008-12-11
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#87
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CMT may be "Cellular Mobile Telephone", at least that's the best (Google assisted) guess we came up with the other evening.
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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by lma
So your N900 can phone you up and say "You left me on the bus. According to the onboard GPS I'm at the following location... I'll phone you again if the accelerometer says anyone has picked me up."
Hm, anyone know what exactly drivers/misc/cmt-speech is?
Roger.
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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by lma
It looks like this driver was for a cell-phone. Maybe the next device will be a phone or Nokia is working on other Linux-based cell-phones for which they require these drivers. Maybe they're going to use Symbian on normal phones and Linux on smartphones in the future?
Code:config SSI_CMT_SPEECH tristate "CMT speech driver" depends on OMAP_SSI ---help--- If you say Y here, you will enable the CMT speech driver. This driver provides a simple interface for the user space speech protocol implementation to communicate with the cellular engine over the SSI bus.
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2008-12-11
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Originally Posted by pycage
Yes, HS*PA (data only)
It looks like this driver was for a cell-phone. Maybe the next device will be a phone or Nokia is working on other Linux-based cell-phones for which they require these drivers. Maybe they're going to use Symbian on normal phones and Linux on smartphones in the future?
There is already little to no difference anymore between 'tablet' and 'smartphone', and I only see these growing more towards each other. The RX-51 will have features smartphones tradtionally had. HSPA+ allows all-IP, LTE is all-IP. The only difference is one based on (wrong) perception such as the keyboard or the OS. But with smartphones getting full keyboard or touch-based keyboards, and with Maemo OS reaching adolescence and Symbian becoming open source and both using Qt those differences fade as well.
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