Is it my impression or it's basically a Nokia N9 with different software and an extra button?
Nokia Lumia 800
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Re: Nokia Lumia 800
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You can have it with Meego, as the N9. It's almost exactly the same hardware (the N9 has an additional button).
No, Lumia has three capacitive windows buttons and physical camera button in addition to N9 hardware. N9 has buttonless interface.
In the end, they are pretty much the same phone with different OS.
Re: Nokia Lumia 800
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You can have it with Meego, as the N9. It's almost exactly the same hardware (the N9 has an additional button).
If someone can get meego working on the lumia I'd definitely consider it ... (an actual n9 is harder to come by, would prob be more expensive).
Should be ridiculously easy. It's more or less the same hardware and the Meego side is open-source.
Re: Nokia Lumia 800
#34It's a great form factor, I like it very much -- it feels slimmer than the iPhone: http://versusio.com/en/nokia-lumia-800-vs-apple-iphone-4s-64... (click at the top right to view the phones in original size) I'd love it with a different OS
Why different OS? WP7 is a great system.
We can really see it taking over the market any time now...
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No, Lumia has three capacitive windows buttons and physical camera button in addition to N9 hardware. N9 has buttonless interface.
In the end, they are pretty much the same phone with different OS.
Lumia seems to have a different CPU. Edit: Apparently it also has less ram.
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What needs more than half a gig? The 4S copes. Going up to 1GB adds an unnecessary $9 to the BOM which eats into margins.
Biggest issue with more RAM is not money so much as battery capacity: it's very hard to gate RAM, so more ram means more transistors which are very hard to shut down, meaning lower battery capacity. And a higher surface area and more heat (assuming the manufacturing process is constant). On a mobile device, more RAM is often a balancing act.
Would be nice if we could power down unused memory regions... Sounds easy to implement - a "this block is unused" line on the memory chip that would power down the block pointed to by the address bus. Any write to that region would automatically power it back on. Latency on the first write could be a problem unless we could cache writes (L4-cache within the memory module, perhaps? don't we already do something like it?)
Re: Nokia Lumia 800
#37It's a great form factor, I like it very much -- it feels slimmer than the iPhone: http://versusio.com/en/nokia-lumia-800-vs-apple-iphone-4s-64... (click at the top right to view the phones in original size) I'd love it with a different OS
Why don't you get the N9 then? You can get it from Expansys if you're in USA. This form factor was designed together with the Harmattan software and Swipe UX. I'm waiting for mine to arrive.
At $754 unlocked it won't be very popular.
Re: Nokia Lumia 800
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In the end, they are pretty much the same phone with different OS.
Lumia seems to have a different CPU. Edit: Apparently it also has less ram.
I can't find the specs for the N9 CPU, but the Lumia is 7 grams heavier and 0.5 mm longer. It could house 7 more grams of battery and the shorter battery life could indicate a beefier CPU.
Or a less power efficient OS. I'll go for the second.
Re: Nokia Lumia 800
#39I love how the "very fast" page shows some games icons and "lots of fun" is MS Office
Re: Nokia Lumia 800
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lumia seems to have a different CPU. Edit: Apparently it also has less ram.
I can't find the specs for the N9 CPU, but the Lumia is 7 grams heavier and 0.5 mm longer. It could house 7 more grams of battery and the shorter battery life could indicate a beefier CPU. Or a less power efficient OS. I'll go for the second.
Lumia has 1400 MHz CPU while N9 seems to have 1 GHz.