[ale] Google's Nexus one revealed

[Brian Stanaland]

I agree with you on the keyboard. I have the specs for my perfect G1 
replacement in mind. And it includes a physical keyboard. I've gotten 
used to checking my GaTech email through a terminal window using pine.

Brian

On 12/26/2009 23:42, Pat Regan wrote:
> On 12/25/2009 12:31 PM, krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
>    
>> Nexus One full specs revealed, invite-only retail sales
>> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/12/23/nexus-one-full-specs-revealed-invite-only-retail-sales
>>      
> The specs look nice.  The biggest thing my G1 is lacking is RAM.  The
> specs list 192 meg of ram.  The stock kernel loses all but about 95 meg
> of that to video ram and the radio.  That doesn't leave a lot of room to
> keep apps running in...  There's a kernel patch that steals 10 meg of
> video ram back, and that makes things surprisingly more roomy.  Between
> that and compcache, the G1 still manages to work surprisingly well.
>
> I would imagine things would be pretty idyllic on the Nexus with its 512
> meg of ram, or even the Droid for that matter :).  I really wouldn't
> want to give up the nice roomy keyboard of the G1, though.  I use the on
> screen keyboard a lot if I only have to type a word or three, but I
> wouldn't be happy sshing without a keyboard.
>
> Pat
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