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Didn't find anything on here about this one.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...-devicetablet/


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hehe. I've seriously got to consider grabbing one of these when they're available. Mostly just to see how good it is.

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kinda low on spec info on that one...

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It looks rather ugly... Any word on the OS/preinstalled software?

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I did find this via google:

http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/03/sa...m100-mondi-mid

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ah, good old chippy. should have known.

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windows mobile 6.1...:)_

gosh I really dont like windze on tablets....

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Wait, WinCE? Oh good gawds. Forget it.

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One day we will live in a world where we don't have to WinCE.

I can just imagine the hardware engineers after all their work going to the platform meeting: "You want to put *what* on it?!"

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mobile, not CE.

more software for the former ;)

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WinCE is the underlying technology that Windows Mobile runs on and is the source of its crappyness power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCE#R...and_SmartPhone

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ugh, talk about confusing...

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Meh, Mobile, WinCE. Same dog, different spots. It's still Windows and it's still produced by Microsoft. Bah. And here I was hoping that Samsung would actually do something intelligent. :rolls eyes:

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like what, symbian? ;)

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From other search results it definitely seems to be destined to be a WinMo infected device, probably Mobile 6.5 rather than 6.1.


http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-S...d-107945.shtml

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Hey, anything is an improvement over WinCE/Mobile. Even Symbian. Although Symbian is now open source, so Maemo's gonna have some competition here really soon. ;)

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Samsung Mondi at CTIA:

http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-12261_7...tag=mncol;page

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Well, having owned a PDA with CE for 5 years and an n810 for 1 year, I'm ready to go back to CE any time.
At least there's software on CE that works and does what you need, I'm really fed up with 1000 half-baked crap opensource apps that only do 10% of what you need.
And this remark is coming from an open-source contributor... so guess how disappointed I am in what the n810 has to offer.

One word of advice for the people who posted that CE is crap: get a device and use it for a year. It may not be hackable or cool, but it is a tool that simply works and gets the job done. My 5 year old PDA still works perfectly and is for some tasks even faster than the n810 - go figure.
</rant>

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I had a hp ipaq 4700 and it still is after 5 years way ahead of the nokia tablet--and has not lost its resale value

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I see April 1 is going strong today :)

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that or the beginnings of a new pissing contest...

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It looks to me like a Samsung+WinMo version of an N810-WME. I'd be more impressed with a GSM/WCDMA version.

Though, it has 4 improvements over the N810:

1) MicroSD card instead of miniSD,
2) 4GB internal storage,
3) HDMI video out, and
4) Accelerometer (which I presume means it'll support screen rotation at all, unlike the N810)

But, with WinMo, I'm just not interested. Maybe if Samsung gets Android and Mer on it...

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I saw no hdmi port on the thing.

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The specs floating around the net today, including at UMPCPortal, all say it has HDMI out.

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Our dirty little secret is that maemo is actually Linux running in a virtual machine on top of WindowsCE. Which would be fine really, except that the broken emulator is not open source and we, the community, can't fix it...

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I also don't see any sign of an HDMI port. In fact it looks really close functionally to an N810 Wimax Edition (but with WinMo instead of MaeMo). Presumably the buttons on the right of the keyboard are the "full screen, zoom in, zoom out" buttons that we know and love.

Kind of odd isn't it? Nokia discontinues a WiMax tablet for the Xohm service, then after the merger Samsung brings out a very similar WiMax tablet for the now-named-Clear service. It doesn't seem to make commercial sense. I can't help wondering if there was some kind of backroom deal done in conjunction with the merger.

Nokia had a mature product and must have already amortized most of their N810 R&D costs against the non-WiMax edition, so surely they had a cash cow here. Very weird.

Regards,
Roger

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dont know about the bottom two, but the top one is probably a soft key, like one find on any modern mobile phone. note that there is a matching one at the top left of the keyboard area as well. and also on the right and left of the screen (for when the keyboard is not in use).

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It's hard to imagine why you'd have tiny keyboard softkeys in addition to the nice big ones on the screen. I can't see how you could use the screen to give function to more than one pair of softkeys, so the small "softkeys" are a puzzle.

The other two keys at the right appear to be labelled "+/Up" and "-/Dn". There's a dedicated Internet Explorer key above the D-pad, and of course a "Windows" key. How many "OK" buttons do you need? There's the center of the D-pad, the ENTER key, and an OK key just beneath ENTER.

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easier to reach with thumbs while using the keyboard?

that is, not having to shift the grip to get to them...

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LUV, LUV, LUV

My posts in this thread might explain it:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19853

as well as my posts in various other threads about 810W

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I am still confused, if I buy one of these, can I get rid of Winsucks off from it and put Maemo on it?

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There's a chance Mer may eventually run on the device, but I don't recommend buying one counting on it. The processor and many details are yet unknown, so it's difficult to predict what challenges might confront Mer developers. Additionally, even if Mer is eventually made to work with the device, it seems likely WiMAX support would be missing.

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No. Maemo is only on Nokia tablets.

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But, it remains to be seen whether or not Mer can be installed on it.

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Maybe not: http://www.linux-magazine.com/online...d_mode_setting This wby no means guarantees we'll ever get WiMAX to work, but it probably makes it a lot more likely.

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Thanks for that link. At least it shows a promising future for Linux WiMAX devices with Intel chips. And who knows, this Samsung device might just have a 5x50 chip hanging off an internal USB bus.

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I'd rather Windows Mobile than have to learn something newly annoying. WM is the beast I know.

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Which new thing are you referring to?

Mer? Mer is, as far as I know, just like Maemo. If you're not already familiar with Maemo, why are you on this forum? :-)

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Samsung Mondi is now nearing release (01 Aug) with suggested price of US$450. Apparently VOIP isn't possible with the current setup?!

How long until WinSung refugees begin begging for a Mer port? Has Samsung ever supported any open source effort?

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