Once the 16GB SD card become cheap enough, running 32GB worth or multimedia library on my n800 would be a blast.

I rolled eyes when people say you don't need blad blad amount of the space. I have a 8GB iPhone, I can barely fit 70% of my music library (which has already transcoded down to minimum level) and the audio/video podcast library. I have zero space to put video/moive on it.

I have to put them on my n800 which has 12GB of spcae and I have only 10 video on it, and that's not nearly enough.

I dont see how shared folders would help anyone getting their pictures from the SD-card inside their cameras to the N810 for further processing and then uploading to their blogs.

Samba support directly included in IT2008 would be awesome.

Ah, but there ARE ways of accessing your PC over the internet...

How does this get the pictures from my camera (SD) to an N810?

Copy them over the net to your N810 from your computer by Samba.

I know my English isn't perfect, but what exactly is so difficult to understand when I repeatedly say the pictures are on my cam (well, ob the SD card), not on my computer? I'll transfer them to my desktop PC some weeks later when I'm home again, but meanwhile I want to view them, make them smaller, mail them or blog them.

Thats what people use the N800 for.

You're right, benny, an intermediate step is still needed (in this case camera to PC). Sorry about that-- I tend to put ALL my digital photos on my PC by habit and that affected my response.

EDIT: looks to me like the N810 could use a microUSB-to-SD card reader...

You buy this ...thing from Japan.
http://www.diatec.co.jp/products/det.php?prod_c=460

But yeah in a nutshell miniSD slot is total ********.

I was hoping to keep the pedant in me suppressed for another 24 hours.

Yes, N810 *can* get "more compatible" with future devices going completely mini-SD, based on the assumption that the majority of future devices standardize support of mini-SD and not SD. You basically stated my argument in your second sentence. The key word here is _more_. Supporting mini-SD exclusively means that there is zero chance that you will be able to use SD cards in the unit, thus making your N810 memory free for use on the majority of devices and not limited to older electronics or other tablets.

Backwards compatibility is partial compatibility, while full compatibility is total compatibility. Partial compatibility is less compatible than total compatibility: So backwards compatibility is less compatible than full compatibility, or full compatibility is more compatible than backwards compatibility.

This is a small distinction to finesse (or grind into the ground), but an important one; especially if you're a multi-billion dollar corporation planning to release this device to the masses. By reducing the choice you reduce the chance for incompatibility, and reduce the cases of disgruntled customers; it is less likely that a person that expands the memory of the n810 will be limited from using that memory in another device.

Of course, if the assumption regarding the mini-SD standard falls flat, so does my argument.

But for all intensive purposes, I understand your point. SD provides 100% backwards compatibility and systems that support it can enjoy a greater range of media than can those who are limited to mini-SD.


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