Video of Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

OK, the upload has finished but Youtube is still transcoding the video. It will appear here:

http://www.youtube.com/areamobile


I also got this code for embedding:

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Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

with the CF slot in the Zaurus, which allowed wifi, bluetooth, POTS modem, gprs/gsm, ethernet, CF and microdrive, I/O cards etc, the Zaurus would probably never have become such a cult classic. It's clear the zaurus developers never anticipated that the CF slot would give their product such versatility!
Not only that, more recent models had a mini-A usb socket so you could plug in digital cameras, keyboards etc without needing funky adaptors!

if the tablet isn't going to gain a CF slot, which is unlikely, at the very least fit a useful USB socket with sufficient power to drive a 3g usb modem, PLEASE. Otherwise, as people have asked innumerably, a docking connector would be ideal... model it on single lane PCIe or something, add usb pass through and video pass through!
At present the tablet is very much an appliance, but it could be so much more.

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

OTG is a standard, there's nothing funky about it. Besides, you can handle the switching software-side if you want.

This is stupid, 500mA at 5v, say hello to no battery life.

OMAP3 doesn't support PCI.

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

USB and TV/VGA output, though, would be manageable; the only question that immediately occurs to me is "Why?". Why output these signals in a non-standard dock connector? It doesn't seem like much is gained over a standard USB connector (as used now), and some adjacent connector for the video, with the option of making a molded double-plug for an all-in-one cable if Nokia does make one. That way you don't have to use some special adapter just to get at those signals.

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

I would be happy if they just started fixing the BUGS and documenting those interfaces since they are the only ones who can.

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

ok, use a 3G modem with its own battery pack. or, why not have a bluetooth 3G modem in the same form as a bluetooth GPS. besides, 3g modems are getting more efficient, so lets set the limit to say 150mA?

it doesn't have to be PCIe-x1, it just needs to be fast enough to allow you to add more than just a mass storage device or a serial adaptor sort of thing (gprs/3g modem), e.g. video adaptor wotsit.

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

Because that's not a standard and it doesn't work like that.

Proprietary is bad (lame proprietary docking port). Standards are good (USB).

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

AIUI, the "Sneak Preview" is a demo of the capabilities of a Beagleboard. It won't be running anything like Fremantle (according to Quim this evening, it basically doesn't really exist in any real form yet) and is just a demo of what the hardware announced today will be capable of.

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

What's not a standard about it? In my understanding, nothing in the standard prevents having a USB-OTG device capable of sourcing 150 mA, although sourcing more than 100mA does require holding the voltage tighter (+/- 5% out to the maximum current, just like a normal USB host).

Re: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
 

Ah, finally, someone brings up the topic I'm most interested in. There was so much talk today about "Maemo 5" in terms of the hardware...what kinds of news do we have about "Maemo 5" in terms of software? In fact, I was under the impression that "Maemo" had to deal with the OS of the tablets rather than anything hardware related at all? What's the deal here?