Right, to most people, it plays second fiddle as it were, to other devices. I can see that as being a holdup for development. I don't have any apple gadgets, but I don't see why the Nano could not be as functional as the Ipad/Ipod touch. My choice of Nanonote was because I actually thought it could do MORE, namely in the realm of porting Linux programs to it. One thing I hope to never see is an app-store for the Nanonote, that's one"feature" apple can keep. I'm pretty sure there's no way to run things like Aewan for ipad. Maybe I'm being a fuddy duddy, but apple has a different view of software and hardware. Maybe my problem is that I have embraced the totally free model, but nee to learn more to realize my vision for the Nanonote. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rubén Berenguel Sent: 03/04/11 02:57 PM To: English Qi Hardware mailing list - support, developers, use cases and fun Subject: Re: Future of Nanonote
Currently I'm using it as a kind of PDA. Plug it to my Mac at home, ssh into it and use taskwarrior and hnb when needed (adding a task or exploring an idea). Come to my office, plug it to my netbook and ssh into it. Repeat. And when I'm away from the computer or in a commute, I have my tasks at hand. I've also done some gp/pari programming on it (while I was without any other computing mean in Switzerland a few weeks ago) and play an occasional game of Dungeon Crawl on it. I think it can be pretty useful someday, right now it is just a shiny tool that appeals my inner geek more than my iPad or iPod Touch, for this kind of tasks. Cheers, Ruben -- ======================================== * Rubén Berenguel * Homepage: http://www.mostlymaths.net * RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MostlyMaths * Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/berenguel ======================================== On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 22:50, Mark Tuson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've always been under the impression that the NanoNote was nothing more > than a toy. I use mine for a bit of programming (yeah, I've even done some > serious stuff on it), but I mainly use it for taking notes and impressing > people with the smallest Debian laptop. > > Yeah, getting more stuff to work on it would be cool, and it'll doubtlessly > happen, but let's not start trying to make it useful just yet, because I > fear that if we do, we'll end up with another palmtop like any other. All I > want, right now, is a bigger screen and a touchpad (or similar device), so > that I can run TWM on it without having to use my VAIO as a terminal. > > Mark. > > > On 04/03/11 19:41, Jane Andreas wrote: > > Just thought I would offer some reflections and comments on what I hope the > next Nano is. First of all, my approach since 2007 when I searched for the > HP Jornada has been to migrate almost completely to a mobile platform. The > more the next nanonote lets me not use my laptop, the better. The 2 main > things that would do this on the hardware side are USB Host and wifi. with a > good browser, I would seriously almost abandon my laptop. On the software > side, I need things that let me be creative without being heavy. The main > things we are lacking now are (as I see it and for my particular needs): > > image/photo editor (cropping, resizing, adding text, other basic functions) > my thinking is, that if on-board camera interfaces can do it, why not the > Nano? > > music tuner (preferably one that displays exact frequency of input) > > graphics creation program for something other than ascii art > > some way of writing and synthesizing midi files > > So basically as odd as it sounds, I strive for a laptop-replacement media > studio in my pocket type of device. It does take compromise, but nowhere > could it work more than with Free hardware AND software. I think it is > almost feasible on the Ben, so for sure on the Ya > > one thing I could not abide is if the cpu on Ya were to gererate any heat > making unit warm. I would say it is always easy to want more and if we jump > to a 700 mhz cpu, we will not have optimized efficiently our MIPS one. Also, > if we add parts that take more cpu, the potential of higher clock speed is > spent on just controlling those things. > > I will stop rambling now and leave you with food for thought. Thanks for > listening > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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