Kindle was designed to do a completely different job. It uses a specialized screen -- I think it's ePaper, or something similar, based on some work from MIT a few years back -- that's designed to make the text as easy to read as a printed book.
AFAIK, there's no color support on that kind of screen technology yet, or if there is, it's prohibitively expensive.
Correct. That screen utilizes eInk (ePaper, whatever currently the hype word is for it). The main idea behind this technology is readability and minimal energy consumption. Next generation of this technology will probably be OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) with which it will be possible to have thin and colorful displays. Sony has developed interesting prototypes which you can see e.g. here. (http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAm3KihFho)
People got fed up with Web 2.0, plus it pairs poorly with "Web browsing device", so they made a new word.
Anyone else notice that they said it would support open media codecs. Does this mean the device (much like Ubuntu without added repositories) wont support common formats like mp3?
'cloud computing client' == client for web applications, which use cloud computing. But I think we are still talking about having Firefox in a cheap tablet.
Good call, I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.01 on Leopard. And it doesn't crash anymore, though it doesn't crash Safari either anymore, so I'm thinking it could have been something on their end that's since been updated.
It sounds like the techcrunchies haven't actually used the Nokia N810. Just like their dream web tablet, the N810 already uses a Linux kernel, runs Firefox, Skype and plays Flash and other media. It also just hit their $299 price point. They dismissed it, however, and said they want a bigger screen, even though it has has a fantastic 800x480 resolution and 225 pixels per inch (compared to the iPhone's 480x320 resolution and 160 pixels per inch).
Then Cubrilovic and Arrington deleted their comments. Go figure.
It sounds like the techcrunchies haven't actually used the Nokia N810. Just like their dream web tablet, the N810 already uses a Linux kernel, runs Firefox, Skype and plays Flash and other media. It also just hit their $299 price point.
They dismissed it, however, and said they want a bigger screen, even though it has has a fantastic 800x480 resolution and 225 pixels per inch (compared to the iPhone's 480x320 resolution and 160 pixels per inch).
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 61.5 ms ] threadAFAIK, there's no color support on that kind of screen technology yet, or if there is, it's prohibitively expensive.
WTF is a 'cloud computing client'. Personally I'm sick and tired of hearing the word 'cloud' being used in every hyped project now.
"Cloud computing" - for those who believe in it and "web browsing" for the rest of us.
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Anyone else notice that they said it would support open media codecs. Does this mean the device (much like Ubuntu without added repositories) wont support common formats like mp3?
Then Cubrilovic and Arrington deleted their comments. Go figure.
They dismissed it, however, and said they want a bigger screen, even though it has has a fantastic 800x480 resolution and 225 pixels per inch (compared to the iPhone's 480x320 resolution and 160 pixels per inch).