Comments on: Tablet PCs – a chance for Maemo?

By: Tawny Kunstlinger

Tawny Kunstlinger — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:53:18 +0000

Alot of bloggers are not really pleased with this new iPad.There was just too much hoopla regarding it and alot people got turned off.You see, I for one see some of the cool potential of this gizmo. Third-party applications for composing tunes, games, newsprints and magazines and FFS books, tons of cool stuff, but they failed to sell it very well (excluding the books). It feels rather not finished

By: birdy

birdy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:01:07 +0000

Yes, I’m for it that Nokia builds a pad-sized tablet using Maemo. That could be a pretty cool device.
But there is one problem! The software has to be adjusted/enhanced greatly!

For example office-viewer should be improved to be an editable (k)office. The media player can be improved a lot, by taking advantage of the additional space. The same applies for the foto-app, which should than be able to edit fotos. And so on…

It may be rather easy to build the hardware, it’s more work getting the software in shape properly.

But I do see a great chance for Nokia pushing torwards this direction.

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:41:30 +0000

Uh, the iPhone OS does have a system clipboard now. Since release 3.0.

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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:16:45 +0000

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By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:47:33 +0000

Regarding Multitasking:
I think with the speed of the iPad (it seems to be way faster than an iPhone 3GS) application-stopping and starting again will feel like application switching. The programmers will have to implement measurements to preserve the current state of their application when the user quits it and to quickly restore the state once the user starts it again. This is no true multitasking but can make up for some of the problems created by omitting that feature.

I think the choice Apple made by building this device and running an derivative of iPhone OS is the choice to support the “normal” user and not us power users. Read http://flyosity.com/ipad/the-ipad-is-for-everyone-but-us.php for a very good article about this.

But I want to bitch a little bit too! This thing lacks a (front and back?) facing camera! Skype FTW!

By: Henri Bergius

Henri Bergius — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:03:10 +0000

Hopefully iPad’s probable success will encourage Nokia to take the step and provide something like a Maemo tablet – think of the N900 UI (multitasking, Firefox!) running on tabletized Nokia Booklet hardware.

Then again, something like that could also be accomplished by installing Mer (the 100% open source variant of Maemo) on an Always Innovating Touch Book. They even have the “keyboard dock” available.