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New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com)New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com)Posted Oct 18, 2007 13:24 UTC (Thu) by louie (subscriber, #3285)In reply to: New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com) by NigelK Parent article: New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com)
I can't speak to the N810, but the moz-based browser on the N800 is much more stable than the browser on the 770. Note that the N810 (despite the keyboard) is still smaller than the 770- 141mm x 79mm x 19mm for 770 w/cover, 128mm x 72 x 14 for N810. So at worst, if you don't like the keyboard, ignore it. (I've also seen some hints that the OS has been tweaked to make it friendlier to use with fingers, which would be very welcome. Lots to learn from iPhone there.) Finally, as far as screen protection, I carry my N800 around in my pockets and backpack all the time, and have not seen any scratches and such. So I don't really think the protection is all that necessary. I have my issues with this device- frankly, I think the decision not to include GSM is somewhere between stupid and criminal, and the usability of the software is fairly poor in a lot of ways (see for example this comparison with technology from a decade ago.) But the hardware is excellent and getting better with every rev.
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New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com) Posted Oct 18, 2007 14:39 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] How does the browser do with the somewhat restricted memory? I find the 770 tends to grind to a halt (or nearly so) on the occasional oversized page.
New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com) Posted Oct 18, 2007 18:47 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link] > How does the browser do with the somewhat restricted memory? > > I find the 770 tends to grind to a halt (or nearly so) on the occasional oversized page. The main reason for this and the 770 browser crashes is that 770 has too little memory for "oversized" pages. Swap can help, but swapping is pretty slow too. N800 and N810 have 2x the RAM compared to 770 (128MB vs. 64MB) and because the Maemo base system memory footprint is pretty large, the RAM available for applications is actually almost 3x larger than in 770. You can open many more applications in N800. The IT OS releases for N800/N810 should handle tight memory situations a bit better too. More of the pre-installed applications support "background killing" (I don't think any 3rd party app does this though) and kernel denies memory allocations to processes earlier too, as kernel having too little memory makes everything very slow. Although Mozilla browser uses more memory than Opera at the beginning, Flash 9 doesn't use as much memory as Flash 7, and Flash stuff is the thing taking most memory on web pages... I think Flash & Javascript stop if device starts to run out of memory, this helps too.
New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com) Posted Oct 19, 2007 2:33 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] Quote: Finally, as far as screen protection, I carry my N800 around in my pockets > and backpack all the time, and have not seen any scratches and such. So I don't really think the protection is all that necessary. End Quote keep in mind, the above is from luis "acid hands" villa. So if he hasn't dissolved this thing that's REALLY saying something.
New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com) Posted Oct 19, 2007 9:23 UTC (Fri) by NigelK (guest, #42083) [Link] *grin* I'll look out for the feedback when it appears, then make a choice. If it's a perfected and stable 770, that would have been good enough for me, but with the extras such as GPS, well, it's a sound enough upgrade.
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