danramos | # 31 | 2009-01-09, 23:30 | Report

Porn! Porn movies, porn music, porn stories.. what else?


heh.. ok, being serious--I *DO* much enjoy taking portable media with me. A LOT of it.. and various selections of it. Primarily podcasts (audio and video) and transcoded TV shows to watch when I can't watch at home, a lot of stuff I just want to always have available just in case I want to show or refer to them (documents, pictures, etc.). Sorry, no porn here.

This stuff adds up and 8GB will last for a decent amount of time on a portable device.. but there'll come a time when I want to fly out to Colorado and visit my sister and I'll have wished I had more space so that I didn't have to depend on wifi or the phone network to transfer data around, possibly costing me a good chunk of money I didn't need to spend if I'd only had an SD slot.

allnameswereout | # 32 | 2009-01-10, 00:00 | Report

Sure. You might want to buy a better processor for your computer. And more RAM. Because you might need it. But, will you need it? By that time you'll upgrade to the next device or compliment your Palm Pre with another device or use another medium to carry around data such as this really nice 1 TB SATA HDD for 40 USD, or this nice Blu-Ray disc. Or you carry a SD card with you which you do not connect in your Palm Pre. Instead, you shove it straight up her lap. If you're really on it, shell your N800 with 2 32 GB SD cards and use BlueTooth or something to give your Palm Pre access to 'em; just to give an example of a quick hack should the rare occurance become true. I'm not saying you don't have a point, but I am saying you're exagerating the relevance of your point. With 8 GB you can have 3 videos (1 GB), tons of HQ maps (1 GB), Wikipedia encyclopedia (2 GB) and still have 50% free for HQ pictures, music, and application. Yes, at some point 8 GB is a joke for on-board storage, and at that point this makes the device less attractive second hand on this regard. That is a given.

danramos | # 33 | 2009-01-10, 00:11 | Report

Don't think that hadn't occured to me. The fact that I still have my N800 with two SDHC slots made me think that it might compliment the Pre quite nicely for a bunch of reasons (more storage space, more hackable as near as I can tell so far, terminal and shell, etc) but if the Pre had more space, I might not even need to carry around yet another device like the N800 on a trip.

speculatrix | # 34 | 2009-01-10, 00:19 | Report

so, if there's a significant commonality in hardware with the tablet, and it runs linux, then we just have to wait till the guys who ported android to port palm "pre"?

can't wait!

allnameswereout | # 35 | 2009-01-10, 02:55 | Report

Yes. You can tether too. Switch data back and forth. Pick the best tool for the best job. Especially the bigger touchscreen of N800 is attractive. E.g. for watching a movie.

Again, probably you won't need that much space. You just believe there might be some point in the future where you will need it, but you do not appear to know when nor appear to look well at all kind of easy alternatives.

Look at it from a different angle. People usually replace their phone after 1-2 years. In 2 years a new SD standard is developed. USB3 and DDR3 are standard then. Core 2 * is dead. AM2 is dead. A while ago, SD beated CF, but this was not a given in 2002. All stuff which seems to be upgradable but in reality it will be limited in the future. And in 1 or 2 years you want a new device already because all the hacks to keep the current device top notch are only a little less expensive than reselling the old device and buying a state of the art new one, and the related headache cause a great deal of hassle. A corporation like Nokia knows this, they thrive on selling their hardware. Still, they manage to not piss off their intelligent/geek/liber* customers too much.

Speaking of SD/CF/NAND/SSD if they're using a Linux kernel I wonder what FS they're going to use.

I'm pretty sure Android will be ported to such OMAP device easily. They're ported Android to netbooks as well. Not that it wasn't ported to NIT long ago... still, its a given, and if Palm are using Linux kernel and WebKit they might contribute back there as well. I don't know if you can expect additional open source contributions from Palm though.

Benson | # 36 | 2009-01-10, 05:59 | Report

Not sure quite what that meant, but perhaps Dan was right...

YoDude | # 37 | 2009-01-10, 14:33 | Report

Meh... it's a small screen device.

I'm kinda partial to a 4.3 screen (and that took awhile to get used to). The tablets seem to have hit the sweet spot in screen size, resolution, and power consumption for a pocketable device.

I am excited when seeing videos of the next gen OMAP in action on the thing. Sweeeeeet... The next gen tablets will rock!

As far as html/css/javascript is concerned, since the last version of MicroB was released, my most useful productivity and information apps on my N800 are home made scripted, web pages that I store locally.

It is a great way to sip from a mobile data connection only the information you need or can use instead of subjecting that connection to the deluge of data that a typical portal sends or requires.

In the end it looks like the Pre will slow down the assimilation of all things iPhone... and that's a good thing.

As a pocketable, portable information or video entertainment device, because of the small screen, it will eventually leave its users wanting... IMHO

quipper8 | # 38 | 2009-01-10, 17:13 | Report

yodude, you care to share any of your personal pages or at least a description of what they do? are you running a web server locally? sounds interesting to whip something up quick

allnameswereout | # 39 | 2009-01-10, 17:39 | Report

Laptop.

Porn? Oh. Yeah. On the airplane. Well, portable DVR cost like... a few tens of EUR/USD, with a bigger screen than...

maacruz | # 40 | 2009-01-10, 18:14 | Report

It runs linux but... is it tivoized? if it is, then it is useless for us.