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ysss | # 101 | 2008-06-11, 11:00 | Report

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post

As has been discussed about a thousand times by now. The OMAP3430 supports a resolution of 1024x768 on its built-in LCD controller. Nokia could go as high as 1024x600 and have no (hardware) issues with LCD bandwidth, 3D acceleration or hardware video decoding.

Ok, good to hear that.

Anyhow, I'm still bummed that Nokia engineered the N8xx and N7xx series with Epson LCD controller (yea yea, to make use of 800x480 screens) knowing its limitations.

ddalex | # 102 | 2008-06-11, 11:16 | Report

Well, the 3430 supports TV-Out, Image Signal Processor, and Image/Audio accelerator, am I entitled to hope seeing both analog tv ouput (SVideo, Composite) and DVB output ?
It could be handy to just be able to play hires movies on any TV out there....

But knowing Nokia, this will not happen. And I want it to happen

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Frankowitz | # 103 | 2008-06-11, 12:25 | Report

As the initial poster, I'm fairly disapointed by the N800, and IT's in general.
I've used it primarily for web browsing. I think it never really lived up to the promises made by Nokia. It browsed the web, yes, but it never replaced a full blown pc as an Internet browser.

A few gripes:

- too slow
- too unstable
- repository hell
- bad -beta stadium- browser software for years
- small user base (too small and too early adopter to make a difference)
- no high res (debatable)

I'll give it a year (max. two) and then it's dead.
I personally haven't used it in months. Another paper-weight for my collection.

ysss | # 104 | 2008-06-11, 12:31 | Report

Frankowitz - can you please elaborate on the point "small user base"? Why do you think a bigger user base (that can make a difference?) matters?

iancumihai | # 105 | 2008-06-11, 12:36 | Report

Originally Posted by ysss View Post

...Why do you think a bigger user base (that can make a difference?) matters?

better market, more sales, more resources allocated ... a better NIT ...

so it does

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Frankowitz | # 106 | 2008-06-11, 12:37 | Report

Simple - it's the reason VHS won the day and (the technically more advanced) Betamax didn't. No one had it (but a few die hards). Just like the IT's.
My neighbour never heard about (and without me showing him probably never will) a Nokia Internet Tablet. But he allready saw an Asus Eee PC. Go figure.

GeneralAntilles | # 107 | 2008-06-11, 12:45 | Report

Originally Posted by Frankowitz View Post

Simple - it's the reason VHS won the day and (the technically more advanced) Betamax didn't. No one had it (but a few die hards). Just like the IT's.

Bogus analogy. An internet tablet is not a media distribution standard, so it's not an either or proposition.

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andrewfblack | # 108 | 2008-06-11, 12:45 | Report

Unless Nokia starts selling these in a store they will die one day. Like my thing at best buy I was talking about a few weeks ago none of the workers had ever even heard of one. I havn't seen an Eee PC in stores yet but it is on BestBuy.com and circutcity.com even walmart has a small laptop like a Eee PC on there site. I would say alot of people shop at stores they know and not just online stores.

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GeneralAntilles | # 109 | 2008-06-11, 12:56 | Report

Originally Posted by andrewfblack View Post

Unless Nokia starts selling these in a store they will die one day.

CompUSA has sold all of them, and the Best Buy here had the N810 on display. Not really sure I see the issue.

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andrewfblack | # 110 | 2008-06-11, 13:03 | Report

Well CompUSA in bankrupt, and I havn't seen any Best Buys that have them it might be only at certain Best Buys. I did get my Nokia from a store but it was a local computer store that had it with the GPS units which funny enough is what I was looking for that day. My garmin died on me when I was on vacation and went in looking for a GPS unit and they had both N800 and N810s on display with GPS. All I'm saying until you can got into a store in every town and buy one of these I can see a posiblity of it dying from not being enough of them out there.