The next generation of Nokia internet tablets will have online-anywhere 3G connectivity, OMAP3-series processors from TI, and high-definition cameras with photo sharing features.
All come part and parcel of the new version of Maemo, the series’ software, and are being presented by Dr. Ari Jaakso today in his keynote speech at OSiM. No new device has actually been announced, but the “N900″ is surely on its way.
Word is that it won’t be called that, though; tablet fans expect Nokia to relaunch the brand.
The iPod Touch stole the N800/N810′s thunder in sharp fashion, but the N800 scene is already marked by a strong community and lots of cool apps. But AppStore is a juggernaut, even if its developers are somewhat corralled into behaving like work-for-hire for Apple: we’re past the point where good hardware and good software are enough. A distribution system must exist to make it easy to slurp cool stuff on to any given handheld.
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There may be no equivalent for iTunes for music and movies, but for applications and repositories tablet users have but to go to their application manager,as long as they’re connected.
Failing that there is allways the Maemo.org site where apps can be installed directly.
There may be no equivalent for iTunes for music and movies, but for applications and repositories tablet users have but to go to their application manager,as long as they’re connected.
Failing that there is allways the Maemo.org site where apps can be installed directly.
As much as I like my N810 I have to say that all software for it is beta at best, and the Hildon GUI desperately needs a do over.
One thing the Linux internals in the tablet do extremely well is ease of installing and keeping software updated. You basically just click a link on a web page and accept installing. When new versions of installed apps become available it asks permission to update them.
Oh, N-series. Quality hardware, incomparably excellent specs… and a software lineup like desktop Linux in 1999.
Really, instead of developing new iterations of the hardware, they should be developing a killer PIM suite and an overhaul of the Maemo UI. They’re going to need a lot more than Apt-get to touch the Touch.
The repo system on my now dead N700 was crap. Maemo.org didn’t help either by having several different names for each release. Maemo 2.1, or edition 2006? Quite a few apps in the official repo were buggy as hell. I’ll need a lot of convincing before I go back to the N line.
My most important question: can I play server nethack?
As it stands I’ve decided to return my tablet.
I tried to maintain my happiness with it, but I keep running into annoyances I just can’t get around.
I’m replacing it with an Inspiron Mini 9 running XP.
Sy what you want about XP, but I know it and can make it do what I want it to.
I tried. I really really tried.
Sorry.
My god, I am in love mith my n810 … I’m a grad student. For an intellectual, this device is unbeatable. Unfortunately, or inevitably, devices are rated on little ‘ui’ gimmicks like smooth scrolling. (“Youtube was sometimes a little jumpy, webpages didn’t scroll smoothly”) However — let me just say this:
I haven’t used my laptop since I got it a month ago. And I’m using it right now. I watch youtube every day, used skype, downloaded movie clips, wrote a paper (on its built in keyboard), downloaded music from p2p networks, coded, chatted, …
I don’t know how something this awesome ever got made… something this geared towards the nerdier types. I, for one, am not really looking forward to the high-def camera, etc. on the n900.