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Re: New Tablet This Year?

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Originally Posted by sjgadsby (Post 218363)

the Nokia folks keep going on about how the topics covered in their session will shift massively after Ari's talk.

Hee hee hee.

Re: New Tablet This Year?

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 218364)

Hee hee hee.

/me drags out the pitchforks again and passes them around.

Re: New Tablet This Year?

Wait, wait-- I haven't seen anything first hand. Just presentations and stuff. Hey, that's little more than rumor, right? Like internet stuff. Engadget-grade material. Yeah.

Hee.

Re: New Tablet This Year?

Can I just make up all kinds of stuff and call it rumor to see how far it'll go?

OK.. here's what I want!

The Nokia N1000! It'll be made of a polymorphic metal alloy and it'll have any interface you want and any kind of button placement you want. It'll automatically detect and present you with an appropriate interface depending on what you press up against the screen--your stylus, your finger and various body parts. As well, the screen is also a color light sensor so it doubles as the camera so that it'll work as a web cam, photo camera and page scanner. The battery life is expected to be relatively infinite thanks to a new type of battery, each of which contains an unusually stabilized black hole power source. Once spent, you will need to properly dispose of this power source at your nearest galaxy's central hub to which all things pretty much go for their end of life.

:)

OK.. yah, I'm in a weird mood. :P

Re: New Tablet This Year?

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Originally Posted by danramos (Post 218381)

It'll automatically detect and present you with an appropriate interface depending on what you press up against the screen--your stylus, your finger and various body parts.

...appropriate interface... long clicks...

Re: New Tablet This Year?

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 218294)

I guess free-alcohol-is-free-alcohol, but booze isn't that expensive, is it?

Expensive or not, free beer is the best kind of beer! :)

Re: New Tablet This Year?

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Originally Posted by danramos (Post 218381)

The Nokia N1000! It'll be made of a polymorphic metal alloy and it'll have any interface you want and any kind of button placement you want. It'll automatically detect and present you with an appropriate interface depending on what you press up against the screen--your stylus, your finger and various body parts. As well, the screen is also a color light sensor so it doubles as the camera so that it'll work as a web cam, photo camera and page scanner. The battery life is expected to be relatively infinite thanks to a new type of battery, each of which contains an unusually stabilized black hole power source. Once spent, you will need to properly dispose of this power source at your nearest galaxy's central hub to which all things pretty much go for their end of life.

Not good enough. It also needs to do face recognition, and if it detects Karel's mug, throw up the appropriate placating apology before shutting itself down in shame :-)

Re: New Tablet This Year?

Having waited till the conference....

while there seems to be some good news on what will be included in the next tablet... it seems we are at a loss for any hope of one this year...

Re: New Tablet This Year?

Yup, you've got it right... The short answer to this question is "No" (excluding WE of course).

Re: New Tablet This Year?

There will be no tablet this year. The developer alpha SDK is out November'ish and the Beta, first quarter 2009. From the information we already know, my guess is that the tablet will be released for the consumer in the summer with developers getting theirs around the time of the beta SDK launch.

All guesstimates though!