N900 Specifications - Page 42 - maemo.org

GeneralAntilles | # 411 | 2009-10-01, 22:05 | Report

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post

It's a 600 officially. It's OMAP3530 sibling (as seen in the Pandora) has, however, recently been up-rated to 720 MHz recently, so these things aren't set in stone.

I think this is because the OMAP3530 moved to 45nm (i.e., OMAP36x) but I never actually saw the real announcement about this change.

ysss | # 412 | 2009-10-01, 22:07 | Report

I haven't been perusing the details, but there are slight differences in Cortex A8s (even the same model) depending on the implementor\fabricator..

In this case, Apple has contracted Samsung to make their A8s and the N900's one by Texas Instrument.

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Laughing Man | # 413 | 2009-10-01, 22:12 | Report

Thanks ysss, that's what confusee me since they are both A8. Shame that it won't the possibility of the extra 200 mhz speed.

attila77 | # 414 | 2009-10-01, 22:35 | Report

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post

I think this is because the OMAP3530 moved to 45nm (i.e., OMAP36x) but I never actually saw the real announcement about this change.

The official docs claim it's still 65nm...

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/N...-720MHz-Rev-E/

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attila77 | # 415 | 2009-10-01, 23:06 | Report

Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post

It's not set in stone as you could overclock it?

Barring some silly board limitation, yes. Pandora folks demonstrated overclocking their rigs to 800-900MHz, but you probably wouldn't want to do that regularly, esp with the crammed heat/power budget of the N900

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GeneralAntilles | # 416 | 2009-10-01, 23:32 | Report

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post

The official docs claim it's still 65nm...

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/N...-720MHz-Rev-E/

Interesting. Perhaps the larger package size on the OMAP3530 helps with heat dissipation?

Although the early ES2.x revision OMAP3530s had reliability issues running at 600MHz for extended periods.

Rushmore | # 417 | 2009-10-02, 01:12 | Report

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post

There are a few hardware points obviously missing from the specs, so, no jumping to conclusions just yet

(for example, then don't list anything about the front-panel light/proximity sensors, of if the video section applies to the main camera or the user-facing cam). I don't really expect any more from Skype and Adobe than then did the last time around. That 9.4 flash version might be an achilles heel for web usage considering some sites already go for v10

Flash 9.4 covers most sites, but I expect Nokia to also get Flash 10 mobile when it is released in February (ish).

The positive is it is full Flash and reports are that it plays every site tried but hidef Flash is not smooth (It is not on netbooks either). Flash is a resource beast, hence chopped down versions on phones except the n900- until Flash 10 (in theory).

Point is this device has the best Flash support of any current phone.

On a side note- they better add an audio EQ !

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Rushmore | # 418 | 2009-10-02, 01:31 | Report

Originally Posted by eiffel View Post

The problem isn't that it didn't work out, the problem is that we were strung along for so long: "Trust us with the details, we're sure when you see the lead Fremantle device it will be a great improvement and you'll love it".

And now my trust has been betrayed: the N900 is missing the things I valued about the N8x0: the screen size, the big battery, and now this: the loss of USB host functionality.

Maybe I need to wait a year (or whatever) for the RX-71. It sure would be nice to know something useful about Nokia's directions forwards from here with this "product line" (if the widely-differing Maemo devices can even be called a "product line").

Maybe the RX-71 is a slate with a 4.3 inch screen, big battery, and two USB OTG ports. More likely not.

Regards,
Roger

This of course is a phone so a balance of compromises had to take place. Still, I wish it has number keys and a d-pad

Still ordered one anyway

Too much power and features to turn down. Most complete multi function device evah'... at least for a few months

hypest | # 419 | 2009-10-02, 10:13 | Report

...getting back to the "launching the phone dialer" issue, does anyone know if the Capture hardware key supports 2-level pressing? E.g. half-press and full-press.

What I have in mind is that, I suppose, it won't be too hard to remap "half-press" to launch the dialer. (other users may prefer to remap to the "home menu").

If 2-level pressing is not there, maybe a software hack will do the trick by implementing "short press" and "long press"...

touch-based UIs are the hype, ok, but nothing beats the functionality of one or two hardware keys

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andree | # 420 | 2009-10-02, 10:25 | Report

Originally Posted by hypest View Post

...getting back to the "launching the phone dialer" issue, does anyone know if the Capture hardware key supports 2-level pressing? E.g. half-press and full-press.

What I have in mind is that, I suppose, it won't be too hard to remap "half-press" to launch the dialer. (other users may prefer to remap to the "home menu").

If 2-level pressing is not there, maybe a software hack will do the trick by implementing "short press" and "long press"...

touch-based UIs are the hype, ok, but nothing beats the functionality of one or two hardware keys

I agree - I was quite dissapointed seeing that n900 doesn't have any hw buttons in front (at least some for call start&termination).. but oh, well...

however, I too think about remapping some buttons to do some stuff (like volume buttons to control audio player - mentioned here http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...en_when_locked ).

and as the camera will probably only be used when the camera cover is cleared, I think that remapping the shutter (in case of disabled camera) is a logical must

) I know I'll try to do figure out how to do it

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