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What the heck?! No 104" quad-hd screen?! I'm soooooo disappointed!

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I am not really disappointed with the 5mpx. It was really a personal disappointment. Because i thought i would replace both my n958gb and n810 for the n900. I assumed by that time nokia would put in a better camera than that is on the n958gb. But i can take the 5mpx also.

My real disappointment was with the ram..... i just could not understand why nokia would give us the same ram which they actually gave almost 3 years ago.
But now i understand that it is not an issue.

So i am perfectly happy. Thanks for the fm transmitter and the accelerometer. I hope the fm transmitter is better than the one in n78.

My last and final question is the touch screen... is it capacitative or resistive?

Thanks

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At first, I wanted a higher-resolution screen. 800x480 seems so small.

I've since realized that we're pretty much at the highest resolution we're going to get without making the device unwieldy. If the face of the device was all screen with no bezel (and then where would the web camera go?), then perhaps we could get a bit higher numbers in the HxV department...

I've also realized that what I want the bigger screen for is not what Nokia is building the device to do; I want a hand-held laptop, and that's just a contradiction in terms for most people. I want to be able to run desktop applications on this device, and the 480V resolution is often frustratingly slender for desktop apps like word processors or spreadsheets. But I'm a slender minority here; I'm betting that Nokia's concentrating their limited man-hours on making a device that does hand-held, carry-around tasks well.

My best hope for my niche "handheld laptop" fetish is for some sort of video out.

The other thing that concerns me is the API break. I don't understand why that's happening. Can't they incorporate the legacy API and extend it with new features? Anyway, not much I can do in any case.

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API breaks happen for a lot of reasons, and "API break" can actually mean a lot of different things. Let's wait until the API's are actually frozen and we have some concrete info on what'll be breaking, where it'll be breaking and why before we pass judgement.

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I doubt it will be capacitive TS because that would mean a completely finger driven interface. As the N97 and 5800 have shown Nokia has interest in stylii for the asian language markets.

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It's resistive (this point has been mentioned a couple times before from other Nokia personnel). Multitouch is a ways away. Which is just as well, because capacitive isn't going to be much fun at 225dpi.

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Clearly some of these specs may be tweaked. I for one am glad to see that Nokia is paying attention to product cost. Do we really want to see the next tablet with an $800 or greater price tag.

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any idea if the rx-51 will have the powerVR drivers so we can have 3d stuff this time?

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Yes, this was announced at the Summit months ago. . . .

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Maemo is not Windows. And one of the reasons why Windows got so damn fat was because it ships legacy API to maintain backwards-compatibility all the way down to Windows 95 or even older.
Anyway, since most of the API is opensource and not under control of Nokia, they can't do much about breakage. To avoid API break you'd have to stick with old libraries. Nobody really wants that.
Opensource applications can be recompiled for the new API, after all. The difficulty is with closed-source stuff where the producer lost interest in maintaining.