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You don't necessarily have to pair it. With Maemo Mapper on my N800 I don't have to pair with the BT GPS, I just select the one I want to use (I have several GPS units) and it'll use it. Same with some of the GPS applications I have on my Palm PDA. On the other hand, TomTom on my Palm wanted to...

I'm certain I've seen more on this topic from MWeston, somewhen between the order taking and mid-summer last year.

Yes. The smaller screen may give you little real estate to work with in Firefox though. We probably won't have access to a standalone Google Maps application for the Pandora, at least not at the start and possibly never from Google. There are other possibilities though. I recommend a BlueTooth...

I agree, we'll need an update of this. I too remember that the requirement for presence of a battery was removed at one point, and that indeed one ore more of the earlier demo videos of the Pandora was running without any battery present. But then again Wizardstan remember something else. Maybe...

I don't think feeding the TV is a no-power action either though.

There was a time when hard disk space was indeed measured in "proper" 2^n sizes, i.e. 1GB=1024MB=1024*1024KB=1024*1024*1024B. But then one day a vendor (I don't remember which one anymore, but it was one of the major ones) changed to decimal, simply to make their disks look larger compared to...

@pelrun: The reasonging behind the 'dividing by 8 doesn't give the right value' argument isn't that byte != 8 bits, it's that serial transfers are almost never pure bytes, there's overhead there too. On networks, for example, the bytes are packed into an ethernet frame with a header, which is...

I vastly prefer man pages to info. I've used both over the years. I still tend to end up in the wrong place in info pages, and then it's to start over again. Man is simple.

That's how the Nokia tablets work. It's easy enough for the kernel to expose SD cards as mass storage to the USB, but it has to unmount the card(s) first. No big deal anyway, as Laurencevde points out - there's nothing stopping you from using nfs or cifs (smbfs) or something, if you really need...

Go bigger rather than smaller. The only problem with a big on (as in, say, 50A) is that if you short-circuit it there'll be a bigger bang...

The point about 'amperage' is that it, unlike 'voltage', isn't something to be concerned about. Voltage is critical though. e.g. A charging port can be labelled '5V', which means that the charger must provide 5V, and not 4V or 6V. This is critical, so you mark the port with the voltage (so that...

We'll get a plug (uk/EU/us) according to which country our Pandoras are shipped to, right?

Don't worry guys, give it a few more years and you won't hear any of those high-pitch noises. I passed that stage years ago. It's a long long time since I could even hear the sound I grew up with, which was the 15625 Hz PAL line frequency of TVs. Obviously some loud concerts etc. helped too...

To have problems with a CRT monitor with refresh rate below 85Hz is quite common. Sometimes it's caused by a combination of the screen refresh, the 50- or 60Hz of the lights in the room (particularly fluorescent office lights) and your eye movement (and they move all the time whether you know it...

Actually, the word 'Jul' is so old nobody's certain what it really means (although it's presumably the same word as used in 'Yuletide' in English). It could well be 'feast', but who knows. The important point is that it doesn't mean 'Christmas', so it simply indicates a celebration at the time...

That depends on what you mean by 'get on the ball'. Technically they're on schedule, Flash 10 was demoed by Adobe on a Nokia N900 earlier this year (and on lots of other ARM-based devices too). N900 is Linux/OMAP3 as you know. However, "technically" isn't everything of course.. managers at...

Even my N900 (very similar OMAP3 setup as the Pandora), with its puny 1320mAh battery and way-too-much stuff crammed into it, can now last over the weekend before I feel I need to charge it. It's extremely dependent on how well the system lets the CPU alone. If something for some reason keeps...

Heed the advice of mindlord and pelrun, please. They're right on the money. Don't mess around with li-ion or li-poly batteries. And if you wonder why a puncture should matter, it's because water and lithium is an explosive combination - the humidity in the air is enough.

I won't watch real movies on TV even. It's not a good setting. I watch real stuff in the cinema, and only where there's a really big screen. TV is for news and sitcoms. Running a video on a small device is (for me) only as a quick method to assess the graphics performance.

I'm not going to watch any movie whatsoever on my Pandora. The screen is several orders of magnitude too small for that.