Unless Nokia starts selling these in a store they will die one day.
How about if Nokia packaged the together with a BT phone and did a deal with the cell-phone providers to subsidize them in return for a multi-year contract?
I am not personally interested in such a deal, but it would get the Nxxx out in the wild. Right now, you have to know they exist and really, really want one to be bothered to find out how to buy one.
A whole slew of PMPs. Archos, especially. They don't do much else, though.
I see the Archos 605 4GB WiFi is a close match to the tablets price-wise and spec-wise (same size screen, SD card compatible, etc). None of the other Archos MPs seem to fit.
And Archos claims they play "up to DVD resolution" without transcoding. Anyone have one? Can it play a video at the full screen resolution of 800x480 at at least 24fps?
Interesting... they have an "optional Opera browser plugin"... "Optional" smells like "more money"
Oh, and the Pepper Pad is exactly what I'm NOT talking about. It is 2.5 to 3 times the price of an N800.
Everything about the Archos is "more money". The browser (which pretty much sucks), more codecs (mpeg2 was $29.99 last time I checked), etc, etc
Indeed. IMHO, it just makes them look like tramps.
As soon as my friend connected his Archos 605 wifi to the internet and plugged in the charger, a window came up advertising the dock which can charge too for it
Everything about the Archos is "more money". The browser (which pretty much sucks), more codecs (mpeg2 was $29.99 last time I checked), etc, etc
I'm hunting around, trying to find out about the video playback. I came across this review which claims the browser is better than the N800's (circa Summer 2007). Interesting that they'd even mention the N800.
I'm trying to find out if they play back the video at full resolution, or if they cheat and have a way to down-sample on the fly. The reason I'm wondering is because I'm wondering if the NITs would have that ability -- decode a hi-res video, halve the resolution, pump it through the LCD controller bottleneck, and then double it back up using the overlay. The video would look decent, the user wouldn't have to transcode, everyone would be happy...
EDIT: It is very frustrating. Nobody puts these devices through rigorous testing, like they do at the camcorderinfo.com website. Yes, I know what the posted playback resolution is, but what's the actual playback resolution? Did you display a test pattern and see if there were any missing pixels? No, of course not...
I'm trying to find out if they play back the video at full resolution, or if they cheat and have a way to down-sample on the fly. The reason I'm wondering is because I'm wondering if the NITs would have that ability -- decode a hi-res video, halve the resolution, pump it through the LCD controller bottleneck, and then double it back up using the overlay. The video would look decent, the user wouldn't have to transcode, everyone would be happy...
As far as I remember, the 605 can output 720p. Being a PMP, it's got very good hardware decoding.
As far as I remember, the 605 can output 720p. Being a PMP, it's got very good hardware decoding.
The claim is that it can output 720p, with the optional DVR station. But I want to know if the Archos has the same bottleneck that the N800 has, and if they work around it by reducing the video resolution after decoding it. But nobody does rigorous testing.
I'm trying to find out if they play back the video at full resolution, or if they cheat and have a way to down-sample on the fly. The reason I'm wondering is because I'm wondering if the NITs would have that ability -- decode a hi-res video, halve the resolution, pump it through the LCD controller bottleneck, and then double it back up using the overlay. The video would look decent, the user wouldn't have to transcode, everyone would be happy...
