This Dell has a phone function too.

again, YOUR defnition.
i could just as easy say "inacurate touch capture != usability".

it's a matter of opinion!

It would have been perfect as a Tablet, wait where is the stylus, you mean I cant write on it!!

Mike C

n810 keyboard is so good that ...i bought n800...

To all those who are still debating capacitive versus resistive screens - you're wrong.

The ideal screen uses an active digitizer. It is more accurate than a resistive screen ever will be. It does not register false positive touches from your hand. It is ideal for handwriting and annotation (with or without handwriting recognition). The major argument for a hard touch resistive screen is that it is a poor man's active digitizer.

However, the ideal screen will also recognize touch, especially in an always on device like a phone. Either a capacitive screen or a light touch resistive screen can provide this. The capacitive screen is better in that it will only recognize fingers. The resistive screen is better in that it does not only recognize fingers. I'd give it to capacitive by an edge based on the fact that the screen itself can be made more scratch resistant.

Therefore what is needed is a combination of active digitizer and touch which shuts down the touch function when the stylus nears the screen.

For one of the best dual option screens, see Fujitsu's 4410. Now just shrink that down to the size of the N900's screenette and you all can end the argument. Realistically, I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the N910 as the last experiment before the last step N1000.

I do have the n800 and for most day to day operations you don't need the keyboard. But when you are working with a huge amount of text.. let's say a paragraph, then it soon becomes inadequate. Heck just look at the screens of the Dell using the soft keyboard, the keyboard takes up half the screen. Imagine if you needed to move up and down to edit the text or anything.

@DaveP1

Yes the ideal is something that does both, not just resistive or capacitative. But I think there's only one company that has a working prototype of something that does both (I wanna say Palm) for a mobile device. It'll take a while for that technology to be affordable for inclusion of most devices.

Oh no...


And also, you're forgetting the "hands with gloves" part.

Fair enough.

And for the record, I've never had issue with the N800's size, but in the context of a tablet. But I think we've endured enough of that semantics battle here.

Allow me to qualify my remark then: it doesn't need an integrated keyboard IMO.

If I'm doing work that requires "huge amounts of text", then odds are I won't use a tablet or "mobile computer" for that anyway. But different strokes, etc.

My thought commands, not my thoughts.