New NXXX tablet

A new Nokia Nseries Internet Tablets is coming in the following months (cf NXXX goes to FCC in french and FCC). This N800 successor will be bluetooth and wifi. Great.

At the same time another new pops up. Intel produces a press release with Nokia about the WinMax. That would be even greater and allow a great internet mobility.

When I read carefully the press release, I noticed :

The Internet-savvy audience targeted features include a full, familiar Internet experience, powered by Mozilla based browser, e-mail functions and support for many popular applications, such as the previously announced Skype and Rhapsody.

The browser will be Mozilla based. That's a good news also. I am not sure that the NXXX will be Mozilla based and WinMax. I expect that Mozilla will be in the next package and the WinMax will be enabled during 2008.

The only issue I see in this announcement, is that there is no WinMax network. If you have a device without a appropriate network, it is nice but not very useful. Yes, it is the old egg-chicken problem, which sometimes appears in technology.

Testing Xobni

I was invited to test Xobni a few days ago in private beta and it appears to be a still a little buggy. Hopefully, The team is very reactive. I had just finished my mail of bug report, when Gabor asks me a few more things to help him to fix the bug. I will reinstall for sure Xobni in the next version.

Before everything stops, I can try some nice features. The most interesting is the history of lost contacts. I discover a lot of them by this way. Unfortunately, deleting a contact of this list is impossible and crashes the thing.

My personal opinion is that it would have been nice features in outlook, 4-5 years ago, when outlook was nearly alone in the email services. Nowadays, when everybody is in yahoo, gmail, hotmail or which ever mail service provider and use outlook as local data storage, it seems an archaism to develop something for the heavy desktop.

I hope the team can reuse the xobni code to provide the same features upon a webmail account, which will be much more powerful. In the meantime, Microsoft can have a look to the job, they might find it useful for their product.

There is a nice coverage in techcrunch and in Transnet (in french).

Under the Paris Sky

With my N70, the sky is too high

taken Gare Montparnasse today

New bloging page

I am a new bloggeur with my N70.

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