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2007-01-08
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2007-01-08
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2007-01-08
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Personally if you do not love linux, I am not sure why you would subject yourself to this device.
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2007-01-08
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2007-01-08
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2007-01-08
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Exactly my point. I (and most consumers - love of linux or not) are not going to spend $400 just because something happens to have a linux kernel. Today lots of consumer devices have some sort of embeded linux.
For $400, I can buy a heck of a lot of bumper stickers, shirts, ball caps, stuffed tuxes, etc. to show I "love linux".
Better than that, you could send your $400 to the EFF or FSF.
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2007-01-08
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2007-01-08
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2007-01-08
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1. They have not fixed the button situation. Some have suggested they made it worse. No scroll wheel. Not a good layout for games.
2. No Keyboard. As far as we know so far, there is still no support for USB keyboards - at least none that is easily useable for the non-linux-savy user.
3. AFAIK, still no good included PIM Suite - not usable as a PDA.
4. No GSM/GPRS radio - not useable as a phone. Must still carry 2 devices.
5. Battery life improvement? I have not seen evidence that there is any.
6. They have broken software compatability again !! While the Application Cattalog has grown at a fair pace, there just is not that much out there, and from what I have read
many of the Application Catalog 2006 apps will not work. Having 3 seperate Application Catalogs for what the consumer will view as all basically the same device is not acceptable.
7. Still have (and will likely continue to have) application installation issues. Some available via Repositories, some must be downloaded as a .deb, some must be "hand installed" in UNIX directory structures.
8. (Actually this is complaint 6 phrased a different way) I DOES NOT RUN QTOPIA !! Before you buy any Nokia Internet Tablet, have a look here:
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/
These are all apps that are specifically made for Linux-based mobile devices that will NOT run on a Nokia Internet Tablet, nor can they easily be ported to Maemo, like they can to other Qt based mobile devices (like my EZX phone.)
8. Still no J2ME/MIDP.
Now, I do admit that there are some deffinate improvments:
1. Connectors in a much better place. Putting them on the bottom was simply daft.
2. Having 2 standard SD slots is great. You can install apps on one, and (nearly) never remove it, and use the other for media files, etc that you chance out frequently.
You may Flame at will, commander.
--- CrossBow
Mobile Linux? Got That.
Pepper Pad 3, Nokia 770, GP2X, Motorola A780
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