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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/26/09

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This is impressive. I thought the 880's native Linux based OS was pretty good. If Nokia makes another rev. of this internet tablet I'd be interested in seeing them switch over to Android for the OS.
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BeautifulAgony
02/26/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: This is definitely hot! But it's just sad that it's unlikely to make any difference in the phone market. But this would make mobile phone computing so much more versatile an dpowerful, perhaps bringing us an eensy-weensy step closer to Charles Stross's "mobies" from Halting State.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/26/09

@BeautifulAgony: I know. A friend of mine got the N810 a few months ago. It was definitely very cool. If it had a SIM slot and I could make calls with it I wouldn't mind carrying it around and leaving my phone home once in a while. Otherwise I just couldn't justify spending the money on what essentially is half a netbook.
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BeautifulAgony
02/26/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Agreed. The other problem with a hybrid device is that if my battery dies while surfing Giz and Fleshbot, then I'm up a creek the rest of the day for getting calls or texting anyone.

It sucks carrying around multiple devices, but I'd put up with it if it was truly modular and supported multiple OS's (or OS upgrading) for better app support. WinMo devices have the caveat of becoming obsolete as newer OS revisions appear, or conversely, application development stagnates to accomodate older versions of WinMo.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/26/09

@BeautifulAgony: Keeping our portable devices charged will always be a pain in the ass, at least for now. That's one of the annoyances I experience whenever I change phones. The chargers aren't universal and I end up buying extra ones so I can make sure I always have a charger available (home, work, car) in the event it's needed.

As it is I can usually do everything I want with my N95. It also helps for those occasional forays into FB when I'm at work...
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Killjoy
11/11/08

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"Platform agnostic." If the author created that term then I salute you, sir.
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DisposableInterloper
11/11/08

@Killjoy:

He didn't.
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Killjoy
11/11/08

@DisposableInterloper: Then I damn him to the outer reaches of Dis.

Oh, what the hell. Come home, author. All is forgiven.
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John Herrman
11/11/08

@Killjoy: PHEW!
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