A different approach

Analyse how a brain works on a logical, information-theory level (not the molecular-level boondoggle in the EU)

Build computer representations of it

Turn them to silicon

Pattern-matching, fuzzy logic predictions, emergent behaviour, etc.

Mo' silicon, mo' power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4

Take your time, Apple...

iOS has been stale for at least two years.

The curse of the NK-33

Is finally broken.

Certainement pas!

"We must end the copper network and install fibre EVERYWHERE". That's what the lad said.

Another one bites the dust

After Nokia, that's another European software company that bites it. Yeah, just like Nokia, it will continue to exist, but lobotomized. There's a difference between surviving and living.

Wow!

" I'm surprised how rapidly the BB10 gestures become so natural, you curse their absence on other devices. (I particularly like the task-switching, which is best on the market)."

Stone the crows, Andy Orlowsky likes something Nokia did first. And yet Andy had pilloried the N9 (or anything Nokia did after mishandling Hildon - prejudice much?).

It's a good thing that BlackBerry recognizes good ideas when it sees them dropped by the side of the road.

Good... Good...

My schadenfreude for Nokia knows no bounds. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Don't be sad, my precious N9. You don't have any connection to them anymore. They were the first to turn their backs to you.

Meanwhile@Opera

The Hardware Acceleration is broken, the Out-of-process plugins are MIA, they're making a WebKit browser to appease Apple, and the latest 12.13 was released after the testers complained of never-ending crashes on the release-candidate. Cue never-ending crashes while trying to update extensions and an official recommendation to reinstall 12.12.

I don't think Opera will ever support WebRTC.

That nut was cracked

"BB10 is an attempt to unify three things: a launcher, a switcher and a messaging hub, and there are only so many ways to crack that nut. ".

Get an N9 to see how it's done.

Things I can already do on my current phone

I swipe all day and all night.

I have live views of (more than) 8 multitasking apps that are not shut down behind my back.

I have a rolling list of all incoming messages, notifications and events.

I do not have interface buttons.

I have a cracking on-screen keyboard.

It's not a BB10 phone. It's called a Nokia N9, I've had it for more than one year, and I believe imitation is the nicest sort of flattery.

And my OLED screen has a LowPowerMode that always shows time and date, notifications, and whatever else I want (battery, uptime, network, upcoming appointments, etc). Keep using those LCDs, boys!

Guys? I know they're french, but...

It's "Infogrames", not "Infogrammers"

And if Nokia had competitive phones 14 months ago?

Instead of having to wait for Windows Phone 8?

By doubling down on the N9 and launching a Snapdragon N9 variant on Verizon USA? The Lumia 800 was made from that cancelled N9, it was almost ready to launch and Maemo Harmattan was already running on Snapdragon anyway.

Before someone claims the contrary

It works perfectly on Opera.

Best haptic feedback there is on a "glass keyboard"

It's on the Nokia N9. If they used the regular vibration actuator, either it's a non standard part or they are able to drive it in a very different way. Somehow, I'm inclined to believe they use a special actuator for the haptics. But since it's a dead phone, nobody investigated it or knows about it enough to shame everybody else into copying the N9s haptics. For the betterment of mankind.

Meh, whatever, guys!

The point of the article is that the so-called "Linux" app ecosystem and APIs (GTK, KDE, Qt, D-bus, Gstreamer, glibc, gcc toolchain) are not readily available on a tablet format. App programmers couldn't care less about the kernel, users same-o same-o. Any GUI or API can run on any kernel, given enough elbow grease.

Android can't be "Linux" for the effect of this discussion because it has a totally different toolchain and APIs over the kernel when compared to "desktop Linux". Not only iOS is a BSD "Unix", but WebOS was Linux, and Android would be Linux. But only Maemo (and Moblin) ever used desktop Linux distro's toolkits, APIs and toolchains.

Nokia Internet Tablets

Like many things at Nokia, painfully ahead of their time and killed just when the times had caught up to them.

HTML5 <> WebKit

We don't need another stinkin' IE6.

Me old fogey's memory not quite up to standards

TANDON DataPac, of course.

Ahhh... the memories

I do not remember the original drop test, but it had a few column inches in the review of the sequel which is from my time, old fogey that I am.

I'm talking about those wonderful inventions, the Tandem DATAPAC and DataPac II.

They really thought this over!

That's what Iridium is for... but it's also banned in Syria.

Where are the Register's commentards, and what have you done with them?

No one posited that the island might be Leshp and all this was a bit of gas?

I have a Nokia N9

About as Open Source as it can be, until (maybe) Tizen.

And yet, did it stop journalists from preferring a closed dumbphone OS (WP7) to it? Did it ever.

Sratched anodising on iPhone5

Meanwhile, most Nokia N8s only have scuffs on the protruding camera module, after two years of heavy use. Yeah, totally the buyer's fault: "I just looked at it and it scratched itself!"