Forum: Nokia N900
2010-03-25, 23:55
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Replies: 186
Views: 73,162
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-27, 20:54
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-27, 10:34
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
Re: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
My two cents on the fluidity of the iPhone UI:
1. Prioritization of tasks
- if audio shutters, it is quite annoying
- if you receive a phone call, waiting seconds is not an option to see who is...
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-27, 05:23
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
Re: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
I've tried the multitasking on iPhone and its horrible. Firstly, let's get things straight, it isn't really multitasking but instead suspending the application until you get back to it, however after...
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-27, 05:15
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
Re: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
I won't speak to the finishing touches that give an iPhone OS device that silky smooth organic feel. If other optimizations are taken care of, certain things should just be a matter of parameter...
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-26, 18:30
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
Re: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
I also guess that the graphic stack of the iPhone is much simpler than X11+GTK+Clutter or X11+QT.
This is a true challenge to make a complete desktop Linux graphic stack running smoothly on a device...
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-26, 18:29
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
Re: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
My understanding is that the transitions & beauty are a 2 part effect on the iphone.
1 being that I have heard UI and interaction designers drive what the software engineers produce. So an...
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Forum: Competitors
2010-02-26, 18:11
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Replies: 116
Views: 40,615
Re: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
1. Their PowerVR GPU is faster than the one on N900
2. Their screen runs at half N900's resolution
3. Their OS is somewhat optimized for singletasking with plenty of resources spared for UI (with...
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Forum: General
2010-02-16, 17:28
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Replies: 122
Views: 28,954
Re: Letter to Nokia.
I'm in my girlfriend more often than that and she still ignores me most of the time so that doesn't mean much.
Also, don't you think it would be highly unprofessional of you to use your...
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Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan
2010-02-15, 17:15
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Replies: 399
Views: 181,548
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2010-02-15, 04:06
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,063
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Forum: Applications
2010-02-11, 10:10
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Replies: 109
Views: 22,460
Re: I'll Say It Again: The Media Player Stinks
for the heck of it, i ran a simple test. with only media player running cpu usage to run a music file is around ~20-23 %, when u start a new song cpu went as high as ~50% dopping down to normal range...
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Forum: Applications
2010-02-11, 01:27
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Replies: 109
Views: 22,460
Re: I'll Say It Again: The Media Player Stinks
But you don't seem to understand, that there is no way that they CAN with this development model, as so much of the system is developed outside of their own internal processes.
To further expound,...
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Forum: Applications
2010-02-11, 00:39
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Replies: 109
Views: 22,460
Re: I'll Say It Again: The Media Player Stinks
I'm sure this will be completely ignored, but...here goes anyway....
The Media player is built atop many pieces of software, that fluidly integrate together.
The most critical of these is the...
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Forum: Applications
2010-02-10, 18:55
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Replies: 109
Views: 22,460
Re: I'll Say It Again: The Media Player Stinks
what??:confused:
Get real will you. My last 3 or 4 Nokias and Sonys over the last 5 yrs have been able to play tracks (the way an album looks) and end them properly (when a call is received). ...
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Forum: Applications
2010-02-10, 16:31
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Replies: 109
Views: 22,460
Re: I'll Say It Again: The Media Player Stinks
The media player is only the visible top layer of the multimedia framework, there are multiple layers below building a complete, powerful and flexible solution. Therefore, the problem is not the...
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Forum: Competitors
2010-01-27, 19:39
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Replies: 434
Views: 94,919
Re: Apple iPad
I'm just amazed how bad the name iPad" is! Didn't they do their research :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2010-01-21, 15:31
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Replies: 439
Views: 137,694
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Forum: Applications
2010-01-12, 15:05
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Replies: 1,374
Views: 507,028
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Forum: Competitors
2010-01-05, 19:56
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Replies: 254
Views: 69,275
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Forum: Multimedia
2009-12-30, 20:38
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Replies: 25
Views: 14,406
New N900 video encoding guide added to wiki
Hi all,
I've added a video encoding guide to the wiki specifically for the N900. It describes using Handbrake and also goes into the details of the various hardware and software limitations and...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2009-12-28, 21:00
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Replies: 85
Views: 10,031
I love my N900
I'm afraid this board has something of a negative tone, so I thought i'd just say how much I love my N900 :) I got it thursday and have been happily playing away since, even though the poor thing...
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2009-12-28, 19:37
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,104
A Key feature missing, does it disturb you
So the feature missing is the auto-pause of music/video when one receives a call..music seems to continue and does not stop. I mean any phone with the N moniker should be able to do something as...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2009-12-19, 18:39
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Replies: 51
Views: 14,516
Re: Battery suddendly improved by 100%+
Hi dantonic,
I'm the developer of TouchSearch and would be very interested in your results with just it enabled.
I designed it to be extremely light on the battery. In fact, that was my initial...
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Forum: Applications
2009-12-12, 03:31
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Replies: 28
Views: 19,566
Re: Pandora & Podcast Application for N900
Sorry I haven't responded sooner. We need to get a list of services we'd like to support. I'm already hearing Pandora and Last.fm. Any others?
I will have to focus on Maemo Freak this weekend, but...
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