There's another thread on "is the N900 yet another user acceptance test device?" I personally, based on absolutely no internal knowledge, suspect that the N910 will be a touch screen only device and that the next device after that will be their real attempt to win over Joe.
In traveling throughout the United States, I have found WiFi to be the most reliable connection media for communication and the cheapest. In many places where my Verizon signal faded, it was the Motel WiFi access that keep me going. More and more cities, such as where I live, have free WiFi. Therefore, I believe that an updated N810 would have been the perfect device for Joe Average. Until then, I would not trade my N800 for an N900.
I think your particular trade off will be between the "write and give presentations" and the "no more than 1/2 pound". The Viliv S5 is around 400 gms but it will handle everything else if you can accept the on screen keyboard. The UMID M1 adds back in the keyboard and gets down to almost 300 gms but I understand there are problems hooking it up to an external display.
I can't speak for the N900. I understand it is handling Office files with Documents to Go. Unfortunately, Dataviz has not announced this and while they support editing presentations on some hardware they don't on others. It's also possible OpenOffice or one of its variants will work. Once you've got the presentation, the question would be could the N900 output it to a VGA/DVI/HDMI cable for projection.
Yes, the display thing is an issue but I've done it before with TV out and it works okay. As for editing, the n810 does a great job with openoffice, so I'm hoping n900 will too (I recall qole mentioning someplace he wanted to see if it could be sped up).
There is an implication that the iphone is for average Joe, but I didnt see no app store when the iphone came out
Mike C
You're correct. There wasn't even an SDK when the iPhone first went on sale. The App Store didn't get going for a year.
Unfortunately for Nokia/Maemo (and Android, WebOS, WinMo, and Moblin), this isn't 2007 and they aren't competing against the original iPhone. An App Store is now considered part of what makes a smart phone smart.
I think what we forget is this thing might sell a couple million units in it's first year with or without Joe. And I'm sure there will be more than a few iPhone developers willing to jump ship just to be in a market where their apps get noticed, not just one of a zillion iPhone Apps.
I think what we forget is this thing might sell a couple million units in it's first year with or without Joe. And I'm sure there will be more than a few iPhone developers willing to jump ship just to be in a market where their apps get noticed, not just one of a zillion iPhone Apps.
Or where they can make an app and sell it themselves on their own website with no one's approval necessary.
Or where they can make an app and sell it themselves on their own website with no one's approval necessary.
This argument works for me. I feel much more tempted to invest hours in development for a platform where I can control the application access myself if I want to.
However, with all these app stores popping up like mosquito bites on a pale nerd on an involuntary forest hike, I think maybe that freedom can't be taken for granted in the long run. There's a lot of money in controlling the app access. They don't replace software repositories and software pages like http://maemo.org/downloads/ with aPp stores because it's a better service. They replace it because aPple makes a whole bunch on moneyses on theirs.
Or where they can make an app and sell it themselves on their own website with no one's approval necessary.
And a word onbhalf of Joe Average Teddy Bear: If I'm going to fork out a fiver for an app because it is neat, easy and will do exactly what I want I'd far, far, far rather hand that over direct to the developer who put in the time and effort, than see him/her get 50p and the rest go to some great technology giant.
If it sells a million units this thread is superfluous.
Previous tablets have already sold well over a million units (based on sales numbers from 2007, I might add). A million isn't going to be an issue for the N900.
