First, thanks for a great product! The most important item that this tablet needs is a 1 gig internal memory. One idea could be what they do with microcontrollers is using a 2 line serial eeprom upgrade. There should be some that are bigger than 128 megs. That way you can plug in a bigger eeprom for more memory. Or set up the Linux base with an expandable memory that way you can restore the backups to the new larger ram setup. I am finding that 128 megs is a real pain in the but! The next would be WiMax with reception at a greater distance like 5 miles if possible. The next would be a true USB powered access expansion port. Another would be a USB VGA port. In order to access this all would be nice to have a battery at double the capacity. A keyboard would be nice but not needed since I'm using a bluetooth keyboard works fine. An internal harddrive would be nice but not needed, since I'm using an 80 gig IPOD as a external USB harddrive plus 4gig SD cards. A plugin cell phone adapter would be nice but not needed. Builtin GPS would be nice. Keep the SD card slots! I wouldn't care about the form factor being a little bigger, since I use this more than my 17" laptop! What I would like to see the Nokia Nx00 overtake the iPhone, and be an even more useful internet appliance that it is now. Keep the great ideas comming!
To add to things: I'd like to see there be a choice of three browsers given as a first-boot setup item: microB, Fennec, and Opera Mobile. Yes, I know that the latter is not announced for the IT, but it would be nice for the platform to have Opera once again as an option. In addition, the two Mozilla browsers keep the idea of open development. Of course, both browsers need to be in 'better than alpha' mode.
The dock idea is good, even just a usb hub with regular usb host support in it along with power and whatever other connections are cheap and easy to add (wired lan? mic? video out?).
I'd also love it if the hardware was a bit faster to support smooth video playback without file coonversion, also a more responsive touch screen and faster app startup, faster browser would all be good.
The nav keys do the job but maybe dedicated scrolling buttons, ball or wheel would be good, dragging pages and using scrollbars are annoying.
I like the N800 and the N810 keyboard and screen are great improvements but not compelling enough (yet) for me to upgrade.
To me a full face 5 3/4" LCD screen with a 3mm bezel would be perfect. It would match the current ~pocket size of the N800, give you more room, and allow just enough non-touch sensitive face area to wrap a silicon screen around.
I suppose speakers that point out the back would work as well as forward facing speakers.
Ubuntu MID edition seems to have (knowingly or otherwise) taken a few cues from the formidable Canola interface... and I like it! What's featured is a WM interface designed with handhelds in mind.
I would like to see something like this implemented as the N900 window manager (WM) interface. In other words, I would like to see something that leaves the desktop paradigm behind and thinks about the WM interface strictly from a mobile perspective. Hey, we're talking open technologies here, right?
Also, I would like to see 3D for the WM even if it's not accelerated. Quake 2 is playable on the N8x0 currently, right? By implication, the system is capable of zooming quads and rotating cuboids. Very low res window textures can be used during animations or non-focused apps to conserve memory for the compositor, but can greatly increase productivity on the small screen through a more easily accessible desktop that's virtually bigger than physical 800x480 block. A quick tap to zoom out to a grid of running apps (and launchable ones), then a click of the app you want to use (IMO) beats the heck out of barely descriptive icons hogging the left side of the screen and pull out menus with hidden options.
Perhaps a gifted developer can port ubuntu MID to the Tablets for the more adventurous among us, and to provide a demonstration to the Maemo community that there are other open interface options that are easily integrated. Any takers?
