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Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by robin_reala »

Roritharr wrote: post #83
unwind wrote: post #64

This is the first product I've seen to feature the new reversible and just generally very promising USB C-type connector. Just wanted to point that out, since it's fun when new tech enters the market.

I just noticed too, this is awesome. But on the product page it says USB 2 Type-C, which is weird, since I've thought Type-C would start from USB 3.1, but it seems the standards can be mixed and matched. It would have been great since you'd have the DisplayPort Lanes on the connector as well, allowing for full 4k output over that small connector.

Apparently the chipset they had to use to support the Intel CPU tops out at USB2.

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by gcb0 »

dingaling wrote: post #57
nemothekid wrote: post #29

It looks like 7in iPhone. Even the connector looks like a lightning jack from the renders. And at 6.9mm its thinner than every iPad other than the Air 2 and is even thinner than the 6+ (its as thin as the 6). Also a quad core intel atom. Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android? Seems like an interesting choice, I wonder how long intel can squeeze that battery. Really interesting design choice on Nokia's pa…

> Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android? Tesco Hudl2 8-inch tablet, popular in the UK. Battery life is fairly dismal, from personal experience. And a dozen or so tablets in the Chinese market, few of which reach 'our' shores.

Samsung tab3 10in also has a x86 cpu

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by experimental- »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #93
nemothekid wrote: post #29

It looks like 7in iPhone. Even the connector looks like a lightning jack from the renders. And at 6.9mm its thinner than every iPad other than the Air 2 and is even thinner than the 6+ (its as thin as the 6). Also a quad core intel atom. Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android? Seems like an interesting choice, I wonder how long intel can squeeze that battery. Really interesting design choice on Nokia's pa…

It looks exactly like an iPad mini, to the point where I may have difficulty telling them apart. There are x86 Android devices, have been for a while, although they are more rare than I anticipated. Should be an interesting device indeed.

I doubt that, considering it's lacking the Apple home key.

Anyway, apart from specs, to me it really looks more like a bigger iPhone 6(+) than an iPad mini. I'm not saying it's not influenced by Apple's design, but TBH there's only so many ways you can build a unibody-device from aluminium if you wish not to introduce angles (which annoy me when trying to hold a Surface device, for example).

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by catern »

eiliant wrote: post #56
Shofo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been wondering this for a long time myself. Even the fact that the company was steered away from Meego for (at the time) a less functional OS like Windows Phone (damned thing didn't have a twitter app and Meego came with one...) by an ex exec who could potentially benefit from the migration of Nokia's devices to Microsoft OS(if he had options). Such a shame. Meego was revolutionary and is still imo the most intu…

I miss Meego too. N9 is the best phone I've owned (even despite poor app selections). Tried looking into Sailfish but it is a poor replica.

Why do you say it is a poor replica out of curiosity?

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by experimental- »

freehunter wrote: post #92
nemothekid wrote: post #29

It looks like 7in iPhone. Even the connector looks like a lightning jack from the renders. And at 6.9mm its thinner than every iPad other than the Air 2 and is even thinner than the 6+ (its as thin as the 6). Also a quad core intel atom. Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android? Seems like an interesting choice, I wonder how long intel can squeeze that battery. Really interesting design choice on Nokia's pa…

>Even the connector looks like a lightning jack from the renders You can hardly blame Nokia for the design the USB committee chose.

Certainly you cannot. However, even the connector receptacle resembles Lightning ports.

There's a perfectly reasonable reason for that, though. The design seems to have avoided most (or any) angles, which makes the receptacle rounded, too.

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by experimental- »

nabla9 wrote: post #17
secretdark wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I think it's tough to tell whether it's Nokia adopting Android or the company that's licensing the Nokia name (a Chinese hardware manufacturer) that's adopting Android. I don't doubt they had sign-off on the Android aspect (and, hopefully, actual device quality) prior to lending their name to it, but it seems like, given their plan to license off the Nokia brand, their "adoption" of anything is kind of moot.

N1 is their product. They just use contract manufacturers just like Apple does. They are also hiring new people for tablet development. Nokia only sold their phone manufacturing and design to Microsoft. Nokia is Nokia Networks, Mobile Broadband- and Global Services, Nokia HERE ja Nokia Technologies (previously Nokia Research). They also own the patents (just licensed to Microsoft)

> They just use contract manufacturers just like Apple does.

They do more than that; they have outsourced also the business execution (i.e. including selling, warranties, etc.) of the device to Foxconn. They just share in the revenue by licencing the use of their brand and design (and software).

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by experimental- »

firman wrote: post #36

So Microsoft only buy Nokia for Phone brand, Nokia cam still make other related device that other phone using Nokia brand.

To be precise, Microsoft didn't buy Nokia's brand for use in phones, they licenced it, for about a year for smartphones and a decade for the so-called feature phones.

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by dscrd »

hrvbr wrote: post #26

This is from the independent Nokia that makes HERE Maps, not from the division acquired by Microsoft.

So Nokia sold their worthless Windows Phone part and started making android devices a year later? Their strategy is suddenly making sense.

Re: Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed

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Post by wtracy »

nemothekid wrote: post #29

It looks like 7in iPhone. Even the connector looks like a lightning jack from the renders. And at 6.9mm its thinner than every iPad other than the Air 2 and is even thinner than the 6+ (its as thin as the 6). Also a quad core intel atom. Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android? Seems like an interesting choice, I wonder how long intel can squeeze that battery. Really interesting design choice on Nokia's pa…

There's actually been at least one phone (in the UK) that uses an x86 chipset:

http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/orange-san-diego/

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