Why the heck would they remove the FM Radio? And go down to 1 memory slot? I guess that one could be because of the placement of the keyboard. It sure would be nice if we could charge from the USB and host unpowered on the USB. I assume that the hosting is a question of support and battery life. Gary Baribault Courriel: gary at baribault.net GPG Key: 0x4346F013 GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 Jonathan Greene wrote: > Been meaning to reply back to this thread .... been hectic here. > > My device is pre-release and has a slip case which I believe will be > included. > > Ogg is not included for codec licensing issues... > > Form factor is excellent as is the build and it will apparently get a > bit better over the course of the pre-release period along with the > updates to the OS for release. > > Non-Powered USB...can't charge - not sure about keyboard, but I assume > not and it's the micro-USB variety. > > MiniSD gives you up to 10GB storage with the internal ... US / Canada > maps are preinstalled in much (think it's around1.8GB) of the 2GB > internal and non-removable card which is how you get 256 free there. > > Wimax is next year... I've been told it's "later." > > No FM radio either... > > > Anything else - I'll likely have an overview blog post up in the next > 24-48 hours once i get back to NY have time to think it out a bit with > some extended use. > > If there's something specific you'd like to know, please let me know... > > > > > On 10/18/07, *Steve Greenland* < steveg at moregruel.net > <mailto:steveg at moregruel.net>> wrote: > > According to John Rudd < john at rudd.cc <mailto:john at rudd.cc>>: > > And, no, it's not about "open and free". Since the developers in > > question are Nokia (since the comment was directed at the release > of the > > N810 itself, and not a request for more 3rd party development), it's > > about how much effort the developers need to put into supporting > > something vs. the amount of return they get from supporting it. > > Actually, it is about being open and free. Nokia promotes the tablet > as an open platform, and is using huge amounts of free software as the > basis for its product. To ignore ogg-vorbis support, which *is* an > important feature for many of us (and far more valuable, to *me*, than > WMA and AAC support), and is pretty much the only free-as-in-freedom > codec, is a bit of a slap in the face. > > Some of us do have political agendas, such as promoting the use of free > software. That Nokia uses our software (as is their right, according to > our licenses), but then promotes non-free codecs/software, is a bit sad. > > Regards, > Steve > > > -- > Steve Greenland > The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating > system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the > world. -- seen on the net > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org <mailto:maemo-users at maemo.org> > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > > -- > Jonathan Greene > +1.914.750.8740 > AIM / iChat - atmasphere > gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com <mailto:jonathangreene at gmail.com> > Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene > blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
