Re: N900 specs revealed
 

Drink!

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

Well yes, you know the Nokia product segmentation just as well as I do. By "potential customers" I did mean the potential targeted segment, not the entire population. Sorry if that was unclear.

But I hope you also know the percentage of sales that any device sells outside the targeted market segment. :)

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

Just look a couple of post up :rolleyes:

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

Maybe the D-Pad of the new device will be called "accelerometers"...

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

Next step, Ajaxify the forums for refresh-free viewing :D

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

I'd say because Apple had a vision over the user experience of the product. They do the product according to their vision and then verify the vision with consumer testing. There are loads of mobile devices with hardware keyboard and loads without them. Whichever you select, people will complain.

The fact that there's no hardware keyboard probably cuts out a certain percentage of potential customers, but it's rare for any single feature to have a significant cut in total sales, it's more about the whole package. People are willing to have "less than ideal" - of course that's a very subjective statement - features in certain areas if the total offering is very tempting.

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

I do not see much disagreement on dpad or bigger screen size in this forum. There are a few people who say they can live without these features, but nobody is saying "no, we do not need these, throw them away". Previously, I did not see much disagreement on having GSM or GPS in the device, even although a few people said they can live without these features. So, generally, there is no much controversy on what forum posters want.

You can provide any number of arbitrary arguments justifying certain behavior of certain forum members. I doubt that you can argue against the fact that having a smaller screen, for example, makes book reading, map navigation, web browsing, and video watching less enjoyable.

You are not the researcher here. You are supposed to be the source of data for a researcher. Sadly, Nokia researches seem to be looking elsewhere (other Nokia devices? competitors' devices? who knows).

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

An accelerometer is an electromechanical device that will measure acceleration forces so I don't think it will have anything to do with the D-Pad. Hopefully the D-pad may be hidden under a secret panel activated by the in built fingerprint reader. :D

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

Well, I don't think it's very bad logic. Form factors are going through an evolutionary process. Mobile phones and PDA type devices and UMPC:s are all evolving and have been around for quite some time. There is vast amounts of consumer research data already available about preferred device sizes. Device size is one part of the puzzle in which devices users prefer. Sizes that people prefer sell more than those that people don't prefer.

In my mind the mobile device sizs actually the most important figure, the screen size is a secondary issue. For screen size people want the display to be "as big as possible" within the given size of the device, unless they want hardware buttons in the same surface or there are some other ergonomic reasons for not doing so. In five years perhaps the screen covers 99% of the surface where it currently still requires some margins.

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I don't think jet packs make any sense.

Re: N900 specs revealed
 

I am already considering using accelerometer to replace joypad input in my applications, but in the same time do not think that accelerometer will have necessary precision. In other words, you may not be able to use it to control game characters well enough to beat some game levels. Still, will do what I can, given hardware limitations. I do this a lot lately...