By MS office compatibility I was really only referring to Word, Excel and powerpoint. Basically what Documents to go does for Palm. Nothing more.
And the docking station is an optional accessory. ie it does not come with the tablet.
This would appeal to persons who travel with the tablet and would like to have better functionality at a location. Say... home in the den, temporary office, board room presentation, conference, back porch. etc. A place where they can have almost ful PC type functionality without lugging the PC or sub notebook.
The 1024 x768 resolution would come in here with a 15 or 17 inch LCD or projector connected to the docking station.
I even had a great idea for an add. Of course based on my N900 requirements.
Mods.. you can move this if you want.
Picture a board room with a couple execs around a table some with laptops, some with journals and portfolios. One of them comes into the meeting and passes behind the company techy who is busy playing a game on his Nokia N900.
The meeting starts and the execs present their budgets or whatever. The techy guy is called to make his presentation and the guy that came in makes a joke that the techy guy is playing on his toy. So give him a minute to collect his thoughts.
Other members are smiling and nodding as the techy guy gets up; goes to the front of the room and docks his N900 with the docking station I spoke about . He connects the projector and...
Why can't the techy guy just use a laptop like everybody else? cripes the new HP Pavilion tablet would be a much better choice for a techie guy in a boardroom, than an Nseries tablet. Would probably impress people more, too.
Because Nokia isn't trying to sell HP laptops? (Disclaimer: I recently got a tx2000, and I'm loving everything about it but the battery life and Vista.)
Honestly, the reason would be because he doesn't want to carry a laptop everywhere he goes; if the N900 will do the presentation (and the N800 already will, if it's fixed slides) why tote the big iron for that, when the device you already carry everywhere is adequate?
My laptop is dandy, but I only carry it when I anticipate needing it. While it's a joy to use, the bag is heavy, and it's a hassle getting it out and powering it up (Vista ), so it really sees a lot less use than it would if I had no N800.
Another feature I thought about was a mode button.
You press it once and it cycles through a range of settings.
Like presentation mode. - lowest CPU speed, screen saver off, WIFI, bluetooth, alarms off
Silent mode - vibrate on, alarms low, screen off?
travel mode - GPS on, WIFI off, alarms, bluetooth on
Entertainment mode - equilizer on, WIFI on?, bluetooth off, screen brightness low, alarms popup but do not beep, GPS off
etc.. just a thought, may not be practical but it would save us having to do some/all of those settings when the time came. It would be like profiles on Nokia phones.
We also buy them as leisure devices, not productivity tools. Why is everyone so fixated on making these things into micro versions of laptop?
I'm sure that if battery power in a boardroom is an issue, tech guy easily locate an outlet to plug into... as far as putting my presentations in my pocket... hasn't really been a concern now in 20 years in the business world. I doubt that pocketable presentations is really "make or break" in the boardroom.
Would make a cool commercial, though... but much like commercials with scenes of BMW's whipping through curvy canyons - not much in common with the real world.
I'd just say more options in the power-key menu; you can use the d-pad to select those pretty covertly and quickly. Different power-key semantics could also apply (we already can enable semi-broken softpoweroff by double-press/long-press, so it could be adapted for that), but I like the menu better.
), so it really sees a lot less use than it would if I had no N800.