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Nokia's Linux-powered N800 Tablet Sneaks Out
sjvn writes "Officially, Nokia Inc.'s new Linux-powered N800 Internet Tablet doesn't exist. In reality, it's already for sale in the United States and boasts double the RAM and Flash Memory of its predecessor and it has a faster processor to boot."
Do remember that ultraportables deliberately sacrifices performance in favor of battery life. They'll always be inferior to bigger machines in raw processing power.
That said, I would think that a 220 MHz processor would be fine for most Flash presentations. Perhaps the ARM implementation of the plugin is less robust than the Pentium version. Or perhaps you're doing fancy animation that overtaxes the system.
And don't make the usual mistake of fixating on the CPU as the sole provider of application performance. Any application uses many different resources, and a bottleneck in any of them (in graphics applications, it's usually the video adapter, not the CPU) will screw you over.
Probably it's a problem/limitation of the Flash plugin, and can therefore perhaps be fixed, because the device itself plays Xvid/Divx at decent resolutions and framerates.
It's like deja vu all over again.
> Here's a question, will it be a cellphone out of the box and take sim cards?
Your question is asked anytime this product is mentioned. NO! The second it is a cellphone it will be a closed platform, the cell carriers won't accept an open phone on their networks, period full stop. Use bluetooth to talk to a cellphone to get net or do VoIP via 802.11.
> And keyboards of some kind.
One word, BlueTooth. Really, this is why they invented Bluetooth, so why reinvent the wheel?
> Heck, even a video out port, use the thing like a tiny desktop at home plugged in to the wall.
It isn't a video iPod, it doesn't have a hard drive so it won't be carrying around your media library. From a multimedia pov it is a playback frontend.
I haven't bought one yet but I have been drooling. I like the fact they have now done a product refresh and avoided doing the kitchen sink thing, it keeps it small and allows reasonable battery life. They do appear to have heard the loudest complaints, memory and cpu speed.
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