On 2/12/07, Mike Lococo <mpl22 at cornell.edu> wrote: > Continued expansion of the form factor makes me very unhappy. I wish > they'd have left the stereo speakers off the N800 and tightened up the > form factor, and redundant buttons would make me very sad. I might be the only one, but I'm actually quite happy about the stereo speakers. N800 is already starting to replace the iPod for me, and the speakers mean I don't need to carry travel speakers if I want to listen to music in a hotel room for example. Considering for example the portable devices I took for the Death Monkey (www.deathmonkey.org) trip where space was very difficult to have, N800 replaces three devices out of four: * Nokia 770 for web browsing and navigation with Maemo Mapper * N90 for calling, taking pictures and blogging with LifeBlog (I don't think we had Maemo Blog then) * iPod for portable music * Travel speakers Without the need to carry iPod and speakers around I would probably now take the N800 and a proper camera, and replace the N90 with a smaller phone that would mostly act only as a Bluetooth modem. Blogging would now happen with the on-screen keyboard of the N800 instead of the phone's numeric pad. But then again, I guess this is not the kind of scenario everybody feels connected with ;-) > Mike /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle adventures and Open Source Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: henri.bergius at gmail.com
