The SmartQ5 noted in the link below is one of those looks nice, but.... Close to vaporware, worked, but slow because of processor limitations. An "updated" version supposedly has the same limits, but tweaks the size. http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/smartq.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture. Seems there's currently an ARM processor speed wall for handheld devices that hasn't been breached to any significant degree. It's likely this is what might be limiting the evolution of the next generation of handheld devices. Why come out with something new just for the sake of new, when it's performance has about the same limits as the current generation of devices, which generally are software, not hardware, defined? In small computing evolutionary terms, Netbooks originally were limited to around 800M Atom processors. Now they're up to 1.8G or perhaps higher with good battery life. As I understand it, the current generation of tablet devices run from 400M (n800) to a notch over 600M in speed (Ipod Touch), perhaps with burst capability that shortens battery life a bit (various phones and Iphone). Doubling speed to 1200 or higher in the next generation would seem to be a reasonable objective. In other words, developing a next generation of hand held devices is a work in progress with a hard limit -- it's kind of hard to put together a device without the hardware to work with. If the enabling hardware for speed improvement is a year or so out, a functional device is at least that far out. As for the notion that the next generation's OS will be incompatible with the current generation, IMHO, that's bunk. The hardware interface to the various devices will be different, but a screen will be a screen, sound sound, etc, etc. An appropriately designed OS (such as Ubuntu) should be able to handle most of these sorts of device compatibility issues without much problem -- assuming the necessary info for (legacy) device interfaces is provided by Nokia. Purposefully orphaning a moderately developed stage of device evolution (such as the n800) is a management decision that, IMHO, would be poor decision. Legacy support would seem to be easy to provide and would promote and endear an important software support base that could greatly speed future device evolution as well as support those of the past. Always, Fred C Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na Peter Flynn ha escrit: > > >> So maybe I should have been more precise in my original question: Is >> there (or will there be soon) a pocket computer from some manufacturer >> (not necessarily Nokia) running a Unix-type OS of some description (not >> necessarily Maemo) that is broadly speaking a suitable replacement >> device for an N800/N810 user wanting an upgrade? >> > > I'm not sure it's more powerful than the n800 but it seems nice: > http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=27433 > > Bye > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.70/2177 - Release Date: 06/15/09 05:54:00 > > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
