ARM has posted a video to their YouTube Channel showing a Nokia N95, coupled with LEGO Mindstorm NXT kit and LEGO Technic pieces, solving a 4x4x4 Rubik's cube. The N95's camera is used to identify the layout of the colour squares and work out the moves necessary to solve the puzzle. The N95 then instructs the LEGO model on the moves to make.
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Genius! Thanks for the link.
Love it.
A truly incredible feat! But how does the N95 instruct the NXT since there weren't any cables attached to the phone? Is it by bluetooth or WiFi? Any enlightenment will be greatly appreciated, Thank you.
".. This is a Java application running on the Nokia N95. This communicates with the NXT using a simple control program via Bluetooth..." from an earlier (3x3x3) version.
This is a Java application running on the Nokia N95. This communicates with the NXT using a simple control program via Bluetooth. The embedded camera in the N95 is used to capture an image of each face of the cube. The application then processes these images to determine the colour of each piece of the cube. Then the solution is worked out in a couple of seconds resulting in a sequence of approximately 30 moves. The N95 then transmits these moves one at a time to the NXT to solve the puzzle. This normally takes 3-4 minutes in real-time.
It was never a phone , it was a highly converged pocketable multimedia device which had telephony as a feature.
The 8GB version,in my opinion was 'the best it could get'. And it showed the world that keyboarded devices still have the oomph.
Highly preferred over 'touch' devices.
"Is this what computers have become"
Original N95 tagline
raffmonster wrote:It was never a phone , it was a highly converged pocketable multimedia device which had telephony as a feature.The 8GB version,in my opinion was 'the best it could get'. And it showed the world that keyboarded devices still have the oomph.
Highly preferred over 'touch' devices.
"Is this what computers have become"
Original N95 tagline
Nokia almost got it perfect with the N95, the N95 8gig made some improvements, and got at least two things wrong (no expandable memory, no lens cover). An N82 with the screen size of the N95/8gig would be my perfect phone.
I still don't even begin to feel that the N85 is an upgrade over the hardware of the N95, although the UI improvements are kinda nice.
A strange marketing approach for ARM - an old processor, and running portable Java, so it would have worked just the same on an Intel or Motty processor core. More like an advert for 1) Lego, 2) Ebay (bargain N95s), 3) Rubik's Cubes!
pintofale wrote:A strange marketing approach for ARM - an old processor, and running portable Java, so it would have worked just the same on an Intel or Motty processor core. More like an advert for 1) Lego, 2) Ebay (bargain N95s), 3) Rubik's Cubes!
It was just a demo of what a modern smartphone is capable of.
@clonmult
N82= imaging,soft speakers, 2.4"screen,lens cover,Xenon
N95=Multimedia,content creation,2.6"upgraded to 2.8" with no lens cover,single LED,Boom Boom speakers.
N85=N86=similar hardware,aiming for N95,let down by OS stability issues,OLED(pain in sunlight),form factor dual slide became old,no advances in screen size
Result N95=allrounder
N82=party photographer,digicam pwner.
raffmonster wrote:It was just a demo of what a modern smartphone is capable of.@clonmult
N82= imaging,soft speakers, 2.4"screen,lens cover,Xenon
N95=Multimedia,content creation,2.6"upgraded to 2.8" with no lens cover,single LED,Boom Boom speakers.
N85=N86=similar hardware,aiming for N95,let down by OS stability issues,OLED(pain in sunlight),form factor dual slide became old,no advances in screen sizeResult N95=allrounder
N82=party photographer,digicam pwner.
OLED is indeed a pain in sunlight, and I've yet to see the alleged benefit in battery life - if anything its worse than my N95-1.
v30 and later on the N85 firmware is pretty stable though, I'll give them that.
Problem is that they got it so right with the N95, all the changes they've made haven't given any real world benefits at all.
Why is this based on a 4 years old phone?
Because it is still the ideal
and still one of the best non-touchscreen non-qwerty phone..!!