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Forum: Competitors 2008-04-10, 17:19
Replies: 53
Views: 18,812
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Nokia 5800 tube kills iphone!! specs revealed!

It's easy: there is no 'best' phone, just the best phone for a given person. The iPhone is obvious. All the core features are easy to use. Those other features your Nokia has? Your friends don't...
Forum: News 2008-04-01, 20:43
Replies: 110
Views: 27,959
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: It's official: N810 WiMAX announced

The kickstand is perfect for holding and elevating the device.
So if you're going to make excuses for the bulge, you should probably stick with
"it's not that big" or "I can deal with the bulge if...
Forum: Competitors 2008-03-19, 19:04
Replies: 33
Views: 7,249
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: If you knew then what you do now which would you have got?

I wanted to love the n800. I tried. I really did.

But it just isn't working for me. If I'd known how my experience with the n800 would play out over the last year, I wouldn't have bought it.
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2008-01-07, 16:39
Replies: 27
Views: 6,583
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Lockups under 2008 OS

For what it's worth, I haven't experienced any of the touch-screen locks since I updated to the latest OS2008 release.
Forum: Competitors 2007-12-21, 13:18
Replies: 27
Views: 10,192
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Apple Tablet Confirmed by ASUS

As neat as an Apple tablet would be (mostly just because it would force everyone else to bring their A-game to the tablet market), I'm not convinced. But beyond that, I really doubt the 'big PDA'...
Forum: Competitors 2007-12-21, 13:10
Replies: 86
Views: 30,953
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: GP2X Pandora

It's definitely in the same ballpark. Moreso than most everything else that gets lumped in this forum.
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2007-12-20, 21:59
Replies: 27
Views: 6,583
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Lockups under 2008 OS

Yeah, i get that particular problem once every few days. I'll unlock the screen to switch tracks or start/stop music and the touchscreen won't respond (though the buttons work fine). I have to...
Forum: Nokia N810 2007-12-06, 15:42
Replies: 13
Views: 3,947
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: How to come to terms with the N810's shortcomings:

A clean touchscreen is a wipe-on-the-sleeve away.
It'd certainly help if the NITs had screens flush with the device face though.

(I'm sure it's recessed to protect the screen, or some other...
Forum: Games 2007-12-04, 21:14
Replies: 809
Views: 379,114
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: DOSBox 0.65 ... ftw

I would be obscenely grateful for such a fix.

At the high level it seems like an ugly patch should be pretty straightforward. But given the number of intelligent people that have been stumped,...
Forum: Games 2007-12-03, 17:19
Replies: 809
Views: 379,114
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: DOSBox 0.65 ... ftw

Oof, sorry for falling off the thread there Smother. I ran into the whole 'n800 frozen at white nokia screen' problem and wound up having to reflash the device a couple times. That made me a little...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-11-30, 21:17
Replies: 40
Views: 9,973
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: The N800 as a PMP?

Yeah.

Though even 32gb starts to get tight when you're talking about bringing a few playlists and a couple movies with you on a business trip. Currently I just carry 2x 8g for personal media on...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-11-30, 18:08
Replies: 40
Views: 9,973
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: The N800 as a PMP?

Personally, I don't understand the 'I don't want to re-encode' crowd.
The screen's small compared to a monitor/tv. Storage is tight. You should be re-encoding for smaller file-sizes and the...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2007-11-30, 17:53
Replies: 13
Views: 4,610
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Faster built-in filemanager?

IME, yes and no.

It still has notable (and imo unacceptable) interface lag/locks when browsing large directories in the non-thumbnail view.

Yet, oddly, it's far and away more responsive when...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2007-11-30, 17:13
Replies: 37
Views: 9,527
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: OS2008 Beta: Wish list

* UI still needs to be more thumb-friendly.
Bigger scroll bars or more consistent thumb-drag scrolling, option menus are still finger-unfriendly, etc

* I'd love a 'show thumb-keyboard by...
Forum: Nokia N810 2007-11-30, 16:37
Replies: 3
Views: 2,013
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: ???MiniSD???

Because minis tend to have a better dollar-per-gig ratio and a simple plastic adapter allows any micro card to be used in a mini slot?
Forum: News 2007-11-29, 02:13
Replies: 8
Views: 4,496
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Nokia N810 #2 in Wired's Top 10 Gifts They'd Love to Get

I notice they listed the retail price as $400 USD.

Are they guessing, or was there a drop from the numbers previous bandied about? (430-480 IRRC)
Forum: News 2007-11-29, 02:09
Replies: 20
Views: 8,269
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Is this the next Nokia Internet Tablet?

I've spent quite a few years in an IP law firm. The diagrams are purely to illustrate the concepts covered in the text. They don't have to be complete. Hell, the 'representative image' doesn't even...
Forum: News 2007-11-29, 01:50
Replies: 229
Views: 69,297
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Forum: General 2007-11-15, 17:06
Replies: 10
Views: 2,430
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: 770, 800 or wait fo 810?

Definitely sounds like an n800 is right for you. It'll have total software compatibility with the 810, and you don't care about the GPS or keyboard enough to justify the difference.

The 770 is...
Forum: General 2007-11-13, 14:47
Replies: 26
Views: 11,205
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: Google's Android preview.... looks like the n800 did all that a year ago!!

The trick with Android, is that the apps aren't really Java. You code in Java, you compile to .class and .jar files and such - but then at build time the tools translate the java bytecode to some...
Forum: Games 2007-11-12, 16:29
Replies: 809
Views: 379,114
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: DOSBox 0.65 ... ftw

Thanks.
I'd already stumbled through just about every XCom/Dosbox repository around trying to get this running. I'm all set at the moment, except that the cursor just doesn't work properly.
...
Forum: Games 2007-11-11, 03:53
Replies: 809
Views: 379,114
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: DOSBox 0.65 ... ftw

Recalling from memory how it went, I apologize if I miss anything or if this isn't the level of detail you were looking for.

Fire up the application manger and add ArnimS' repository manually....
Forum: Games 2007-11-09, 14:01
Replies: 809
Views: 379,114
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: DOSBox 0.65 ... ftw

Alright... so I have dosbox.

I jumped through the hoops: downloaded, unpacked, moved, chmod'd, added ArnimS repository manually, got libsdl_net, red pill'd, got xkbd.

Then I dug out my old...
Forum: Nokia N900 2007-11-01, 17:13
Replies: 1,631
Views: 372,544
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?

In the interest of focusing on the practicalities rather than technical specs:

How I want to use an n900

I should be able to take decent pictures. Nothing crazy-good; 3+MP with a nice lens...
Forum: Competitors 2007-11-01, 15:56
Replies: 11
Views: 4,060
Posted By Roc Ingersol
Re: google phone

It's almost certainly not an OS offering either. Google does software: apps and apis. They don't even do platforms. They're certainly not going to do consumer operating systems or hardware. Not...
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