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Forum: Community 2013-04-21, 02:33
Replies: 138
Views: 37,815
Posted By johnkzin
Re: [Referendum] [Council] Hildon Foundation and Maemo Community Council(s)

Hi. Complete tangent.

I was asked by an email to come here and find out more about the vote.

I haven't been an active member of this community in 3ish years. Heck, I wasn't really active for...
Forum: Competitors 2011-04-30, 00:06
Replies: 5
Views: 2,871
Posted By johnkzin
Re: N900 mockup designs from years ago vs Sidekick 4g

So, living life without manners. Good for you, too.
Forum: Competitors 2011-04-29, 22:57
Replies: 5
Views: 2,871
Posted By johnkzin
Re: N900 mockup designs from years ago vs Sidekick 4g

I wrote a good-bye message about a year ago.

I no longer work for a university. I work at a company that makes devices in this space (competing with Nokia), and is a target of rumors and such......
Forum: Competitors 2011-04-29, 21:29
Replies: 5
Views: 2,871
Posted By johnkzin
N900 mockup designs from years ago vs Sidekick 4g

I remember back in the day, when the N810 had first come out, and I was trying to describe what I thought it should have been...

and today I was looking at a review of the Sidekick 4g on Engadget...
Forum: General 2011-02-14, 09:02
Replies: 1,963
Views: 545,013
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

Maemo/Meego is so mature that it has been deployed on how many generations, iterations, and models of phones? And not from a company that focuses on a single product line, but from a company that...
Forum: Off Topic 2010-05-05, 05:48
Replies: 19
Views: 2,912
Posted By johnkzin
Farewell

I know there's going to be some people who wont know who I am (because I haven't been as active in the last year or so), and some who will know and not care, and then some who wont miss me at all ......
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-18, 01:13
Replies: 27
Views: 10,535
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Should Nokia buy Notion Ink and release the ADAM running MeeGo?

Sorry, but I disagree. The Adam got it right: 10" is the perfect tablet size.
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-18, 00:42
Replies: 27
Views: 10,535
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Should Nokia buy Notion Ink and release the ADAM running MeeGo?

Should Nokia put out a 10" pixelqi based touchscreen tablet running Meego, with USB Host ports, full size SDHC card slot, and an HDMI out port? Yes. Though, I'd prefer mini-DVI-I and 1280x720...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-17, 23:54
Replies: 23
Views: 4,778
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Dell 7 and 10 inch tablets

If I were looking for a pocketable, 5" would be my max, yes.

But what I'm looking for is a netbook replacement ... and 5" and 7" tablets are just too small for that. 9" or 10" is just about...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-17, 05:10
Replies: 23
Views: 4,778
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Dell 7 and 10 inch tablets

I have a 7". Too small. 10" is definitely the sweet spot.
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-13, 22:49
Replies: 95
Views: 22,669
Posted By johnkzin
Re: iPad = the end of the Internet?

The iPad has a storage mode, supposedly, for some portion of the iPad's file system. I'm not sure of the details, I just remember that it was part of the feature list (that you can use it as a...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-13, 21:28
Replies: 95
Views: 22,669
Posted By johnkzin
Re: iPad = the end of the Internet?

It would only take 3 modest changes to the iPhone OS for me to be ok with the iPad (and iPhone, really) (and all of these would need to be well documented):

1) dongle wires, and OS drivers, that...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-12, 21:45
Replies: 95
Views: 22,669
Posted By johnkzin
Re: iPad = the end of the Internet?

And an old (from the late 70's/early 80's) song too...

Freedom of choice, is what you've got.
Freedom from choice, is what you want.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-04-12, 09:56
Replies: 1,631
Views: 370,350
Posted By johnkzin
Re: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?

Hasn't this ship sailed?

Shouldn't we be talking about what we want/hope to see in the N910 or N1000 or whatever?
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-07, 02:24
Replies: 36
Views: 11,693
Posted By johnkzin
Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor

I didn't say I wanted it soldered onto the motherboard, I said I wanted a 3G _option_.
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-07, 01:14
Replies: 36
Views: 11,693
Posted By johnkzin
Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor

If the Atom had provably more horsepower than the better ARM processors ... maybe. Assuming the battery life was still at least 6-8+ hours (reliably, under full work load ... and to compete with the...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-07, 00:48
Replies: 2
Views: 1,702
Posted By johnkzin
Re: ICD Gemini

'bout time they finally announced it. When their first tablet (the 15" Vega) was announced, they said that there would be both a 7" and an 11" model. The 7" was later announced as the Ultra... and...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-07, 00:47
Replies: 36
Views: 11,693
Posted By johnkzin
Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor

I saw something earlier that seemed to indicate one of the upcoming tablets will have both capacitive multi-touch and resistive stylus support. Not sure which one it was, though ... but that would...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-07, 00:45
Replies: 36
Views: 11,693
Posted By johnkzin
Re: The Street: Nokia planning a tablet / ipad competitor

a) F YEAH! 'bout time, Nokia

b) They better get a f'n move on! The iPad is here, the 9-11" Android tablets are being announced and delivered in the next few months. Nokia should have been the...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-05, 15:16
Replies: 11
Views: 3,679
Posted By johnkzin
Re: MIUTech HDPC (x86 & ARM )

I don't see any reason to choose WindowsCE (or, more properly, WindowsMobile) over Android ... unless you're a windo-phile.
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-05, 07:06
Replies: 5
Views: 1,722
Posted By johnkzin
Re: which one is the first Linux smart phone?

On that list, I think the first one I'd call a "linux smartphone" (as opposed to a feature phone that uses linux under the hood) is the ROAD HandyPC. I remember drooling over it when it first came...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-05, 03:42
Replies: 11
Views: 3,679
Posted By johnkzin
Re: MIUTech HDPC (x86 & ARM )

They've been talking about this device for a long while. And, I'm pretty sure there are older threads on here about it.

If they changed it to Android + (Ubuntu NBR? Moblin/Meego?), or even just...
Forum: Competitors 2010-04-05, 00:40
Replies: 5
Views: 1,722
Posted By johnkzin
Re: which one is the first Linux smart phone?

The Motorola Ming pre-dates all of those.
Forum: Competitors 2010-03-31, 08:00
Replies: 31
Views: 9,135
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Sharp IS01: the Zaurus is back, sort of...

That's what headsets are for
Forum: Competitors 2010-03-30, 21:35
Replies: 31
Views: 9,135
Posted By johnkzin
Re: Sharp IS01: the Zaurus is back, sort of...

well, if it can do video calls, it probably has a mic and a speaker... and with a headset, it can probably be used with Google Voice... so, it may be data only, but it still might be up to the task. ...
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