Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

Hi,

Nokia has all possibilities :)

• for an very good 10" Linux Mobile Laptop

Before Asus and Apple and Google occupy the market

• What is your opinion ?????

Thanks for your Feedback

Frank

See also - next "Consumer Electronics Show" - Asus new 8,9" eee Laptop

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

That could be a real winner, but I think that hardware and software should be separate. If you ask me (and you did) I think that some of the biggest problems with devices is being stuck with a crumby OS. Think about how nice it is to have a laptop and be able to put almost anything on there. It makes it useful. Remember how hard people worked to get windows on the Intel MacBook? People want nice hardware from one company and nice software choices from others. It is true that a really perfect combination of soft/hardware requires a single source (see iPhone), but that means you are stuck with what they give you, pretty but possible crippled (again, see iPhone.)

I love the n810, but all of the problems are caused by bad software, though the problems are minimal in my opinion.

I guess to sum up, nokia is good at what they do and would probably turn the 10" subcompact into a large cell phone that no one wants.

Cheers

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

I think the boat may have already sailed on this idea, since Asus has the eee already on the market. And it's apparently selling like hotcakes. Unless a company already has a similar product prototyped and ready to manufacture, they're going to be way behind.

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

I agree, unless nokia separates themselves clearly from the rest of the pack by doing something different. Like going with a design that makes one ooh and awe. I just bought a RAzr2 (dont confuse this with the original razr (blah) and the krazr clones) this is a new design, and it has the tempered glass touch screen outside(wel not all touch screen) anyway, it is steel and glass, well designed and has the flat button pad ect.
If they scaled it up and stretched it to the size of an ultra notebook (solid state oled display ect) it would be a killer. Because there would be nothing out there even remotely like it.
The un-appeal to me of the EEE is that it looks like an old pentium II case with the screen taken out and a smaller one put in.
in short, just like any other notebook out there. just smaller.
just my 0.2
-ezra hilyer

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

Don't forget the price. The eee is a small notebook that costs the same as an iPhone! That alone will sell a bunch of them. Maybe not to so much to the tech-savvy crowd that hangs out here, but there's a big mass-market appeal...

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

You've hit the nail on the head. The N8x0 shows that Nokia is great at making it small. They need to polish up the user experience before someone eats their lunch in this market.

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

Small arm notebook 10" + debian armel port = win

but wnat nokia really has to do:
advertize the n8x0

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

Nokia's hardware platform is a computer, a full blown useful computer. I can print from it, I can read cd/dvd media, I can hook up usb peripherals, joysticks, keyboards, disks. It has full office suite and PIM and mail and movies and music and you name it. What they need to do is emphasize these attributes and take full advantage of them, instead of leaving it to the users to figure out.


I love KDE, and I can't wait to truly enjoy its power on the n810 with the slide out keyboard along with the other n810 users. But if real developers did this instead of me, with some tablet friendly tweaks and optimazations, man KDE on the IT would be really really cool.

I don't love having to compile all the software I run, but the fact that I can has kept me on the platform :D

I have a 300Mhz P2 laptop with 2mb video ram and 256mem. Quake2 funs faster on my n800 than on that old stinkpad.

Its not polished enough to be a direct laptop replacement, but it totally could be...

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

Yes they do need to advertise ... I was at the bestbuy with my n810 lookin for a temp case (didnt find one) and all the cell phone guys kept askin what kinda phone that was .... after tellin them its not a phone and showed em what this thing can do they were in awe and asked where they could get one ..... if they were to advertise they could sell tike crazy

Re: Why not ? - Nokia has an 10" Linux Mobile Laptop
 

There are/used to be laptops with 8"-10" screens. I have a acer tablet with 10.4" screen.

Now theres plenty of UMPC's that run xp, vista etc. with various small screen sizes.

Ok they are pretty expensive but are alot more versitile than the IT.

The eee is great for kids or a internet browser for your front room or kitchen. For the price you cant go wrong.

The only problem is the res on the screen. Most websites now are 1024+ and not many small devices can handle this.

I find it a pain to keep scrolling across. Even this site does not quite 100%