No full screen DSP accelerated smooth flash video support

Tag : nokia
 There's something wrong with NAND Flash storage? So whilelots of high end laptops are moving to SSD Drives (NAND Flash) it'sa bad thing that a smaller tablet isn't moving to a hard drive. Toyour point, yes the move from SDHC to Mini-SDHC does seem to be anodd one. But still, 8GB on a mini SD doesn't seem too bad. That'sas much an iPod Touch... only on the Nokia you can have more thenone.

| - No DSP accelerated video playback, bad codecs support thus nofull support for the worldwide Internet Video standards

I'm wondering what "standard" your talking about. I've had almostno trouble with MPEG-4 video. There is some screen tearing on somevideos and this is a known issue. But it's not the DSP, it's theLCD controller that can't update fast enough.

| - No "legal" content, thus no DRM formats, neither Windows MediaDRM, Dish Networks DRM or any other "legal" content delivery system

No, you can't use any proprietary DRM systems with it. However youcan use plenty of content with it. Though it does depend on whatyou mean by "content." Any Amazon MP3 will happily play. If youmean video, well good luck getting any device to play somethingother then it's parent companies current DRM of the month.

| - No full screen DSP accelerated smooth flash video supportstill, not some third party transcoding other format app, launchYoutube and other flash videos directly from the browser.

Eh? YouTube plays just fine, so does blip.tv. Haven't tried Hulu,mmm, maybe I should.

| - No real VOIP that wakes the device up on incoming calls,

Skype, Gizmo, and built in SIP client. All three do this. As fortime it can be on. My N810 which I by mistake left in my bag for 2days happily rang this afternoon. So that's what, 36 hours ofnetwork standby?

| - No HDMI output to HDTVs, since no interest in using a DSP chip

Why the heck would I want HDMI on a pocket portable device?! I justdon't understand the need for this feature.

| - Crappy camcorder with crappy sound recording, no microphoneinput

Yes, it's a web cam. Get a Flip Cam for $149 and use that. Smallwell designed dedicated device will nearly always work better fordedicated tasks.

| - No Android Linux, crappy Maemo instead (cause Nokia is aboveusing other people's open-source standards)

Woha... Okay, a) Maemo is 3? years older then Android. b) Maemo isbased on Debian which is easily very standard c) The UI is based onGTK and the Gnome project d) Nokia is an active contributor tofreedesktop.org e) Android is the non-standard one here f) Andriodhasn't shipped.

| - No video recording, since no interest in using DSPacceleration, no compatibillity with any DVB Mpeg2 recordingseither

Err... see above. Or did you mean HDMI in? (Tell me, when you finda device for under $5k that can record DTV or whatever it is yourtrying to record). If you mean recording analog video... why theheck are your trying to record your old VHS using an InternetTablet?

| Maemo 5 probably won't come before Christmas since Nokia doesn'thave anything to actually show, for now it's just some talk. Noteven a picture. Announcing a product early is one standard tacticfor industry monopolists trying to take away buzz on new productsby smaller companies.

Yes, like Andriod. Which hasn't shipped anything yet. Maemo on theother hand you'll note has a 5 after it. That's right kids, it'sbeen shipping for 3+ years. In fact you can download and use ittoday! In fact a fair bit of it's code has already made it upstreamand is being used in lots of other Linux distributions.