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General Discussion / 40gb In Your Zaurus For Us$200?

« on: January 07, 2008, 01:11:31 pm »

According to Samsung's news release, this new Spinpoint A1 measures 42.8 x 36.4 x 5.0 mm, whereas the official datasheet from Hitachi gives this dimensions for the microdrives: 40 x 30 x 5.0 mm

Will it fit in the Z?

According to wikipedia, the standard dimensions for the CF Type II cards are 43×36×5 mm, thus making these microdrives compatible with CF Type II slots (what the Zaurii have).

I was wondering if the connectors are compatible, though. Meaning, will we be able to use these? Power consumption and all that are also a concern.

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General Discussion / New Nokia N810 Tablet Coming Soon

« on: October 18, 2007, 08:10:10 am »

Engadget has a hands-on article, along with some pictures. Check it out.

And some details:

•  Same 4.13-nch WVGA (800 x 480), 65k color display as the N800, brightness increased by ~20%
• GPS with particular focus on the "context sensitive web" via Ovi
• 2GB internal storage (not including memory cards), ships with maps for use with GPS
• Has WiFi (802.11b/g), does not have WiMAX
• Bluetooth (2.0+ EDR) DUNs to capable phones, totally Foleo-like
• 400MHz OMAP 2420 CPU, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM
• Integrated frontal camera, ambient light sensor, mini USB 2.0, hardware lock switch
• Plays back video: 3GP, AVI, H.263, H.264, MP4, ASF, WMV, MPEG-1/4, Real video; audio: MP3, WMA, AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, Real audio, WAV
• Battery life aimed at 4 hours of "typical use" (movies, music, internet access, etc.), 10 hours music only, and up to 2 weeks totally idle time, and 5 days active standby ("improved compared to previous generation devices")
• Runs Nokia's Linux Maemo interface (duh)
• 5 x 2.83 x 0.55-inches, 7.97 ounces
• Ships in November, $479

I'm really liking this device. It's very powerful (128MB of RAM is a *major* boon, and the OMAP CPU is pretty powerful), has dual wireless, dual SD slots, 2GB internal Storage (and 256MB ROM), GPS, and is quite cheap. All that, but most of all, the fact that it's based on an open platform, which Nokia hasn't tried to close even in the leastest bit (as many other companies do with their Linux-running devices). If custom distros start popping up, then I'm sold.

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New products and alternatives / Foleo Info

« on: August 11, 2007, 02:16:57 pm »

It might be good, but not good enough for it's size. I would go for the Asus Eee (check HERE and HERE for more), for it's much more powerful, both for it's size, and for it's price. Plus, it looks kinda cool.

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Asus Eee PC / Asus 3epc

« on: June 27, 2007, 04:18:11 pm »

Hothardware's preview of the Asus Eee, if you haven't seen it yet.

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New products and alternatives / Palm's Secret Third Business To Be Revealed!

« on: May 31, 2007, 07:24:42 am »

What about CPU and RAM? If it's equipped with a reasonable X86 CPU and 256+ RAM, I'm starting to consider it. Otherwise, there exists the Kohjinsha, which is similarly priced and has better specs anyways.

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Off Topic forum / Objects Of Desire

« on: May 15, 2007, 07:17:43 pm »

Jessica Alba

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General Discussion / How Do You Generate A Feed's Filelist ... ?

« on: May 05, 2007, 06:09:05 am »

As far as I know, "bitbake package-index" creates everything you need for a functioning feed.

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New products and alternatives / New Zaurus Successor?

« on: April 28, 2007, 09:09:43 am »

The product page for the Cathena CX is here.

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New products and alternatives / New Zaurus Successor?

« on: April 28, 2007, 05:03:08 am »

It looks cheaper, though. And also, better support.

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New products and alternatives / New Zaurus Successor?

« on: April 23, 2007, 05:43:49 am »

Could you elaborate on that, fpp?
(EDIT: Full specs (courtesy of conics.net) HERE. Costs about 902$, whilst the non-touchscreen models cost about $769.)

Anyways, what's the general consensus on this one? Is it good, or more importantly, is it worth the money?

I'm pretty sure that it has enough horsepower to handle general tasks (office & internet), but what about multimedia? How's the 3D performance (I'm not talking about anything recent, but more like Quake 1 or something like that.)?

It seems like a good device, but I've seen similar devices that are much more powerful (though more expensive, quite obviously) from Fujitsu, and some UMPCs, that are quite similar (but keyboardless).

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General Discussion / Flipstart - New Toy For Geeks?

« on: March 18, 2007, 06:44:11 am »

First word that comes to my mind when I see the Flipstart is "potato".

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Nokia Tablet / The Nokia N800

« on: January 08, 2007, 11:47:15 am »

                     

I'm certainly getting this as a replacement to my (aging) Jornada 690!

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Nokia Tablet / The Nokia N800

« on: January 08, 2007, 06:58:00 am »

As koen said, the processor is an OMAP 2420. According to the maemo FAQ: "The processor is a 330-MHz, ARM11-based Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP 2420.".

Does anyone know how this compares to the (more common) Xscales?

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Nokia Tablet / The Nokia N800

« on: January 07, 2007, 03:10:10 pm »

It has USB (Albeit only USB slave, which is, I guess, what you meant when you said it has no USB), it has bluetooth 2.0, but no IR. You could use a BT keyboard.

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Nokia Tablet / The Nokia N800

« on: January 07, 2007, 06:56:54 am »

THIS blog contains a lot of valuable information, courtesy of a happy new N800 owner! The guy posted about 70 pictures of the N800 HERE. Enjoy

The Chicago CompUSA megastore is confirmed to have some N800's in stock (At least they *did*). If anyone lives in the Chicago area, run!