Re: Speculation about the next firmware (PR1.2?) and its release date
 

- Portrait mode accross the UI. ((A MUST))

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Yeah that's a must. All those apps that run in landscape mode will magically work in portrait mode. :D

I'm calling shenanigans on the "universal portrait mode" requests--much like the endless yammering about "capacitive", it's a hollow criterion for merit based on iWannabe rather than an actual need.

Sure it's useful for one-handed txting, and a handful of apps, but it's hardly a universal necessity. A lot of the Maemo 5 apps are best used with keyboard opened, anyway.

Re: Speculation about the next firmware (PR1.2?) and its release date
 

why come up with this point when it's been confirmed officially that universal portrait support across the whole OS will not happen until Maemo 6?

Re: Speculation about the next firmware (PR1.2?) and its release date
 

Just to answer the factual parts. Qt 4.0 came out in 2005, 4.2 in 2006. Maemo does not include KDE so stability comparisons based on it are dubious at best.

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Qt != KDE :)
Just forget about KDE and look at Qt with new eyes and without prejudice. Nokia did (IMHO) a good thing liberating Qt a bit from the K grip by buying Trolltech. It's a fresh start and who cares if KDE is using Qt? :)

OTOH, Qt is stable and has been used by commercial software (Opera, Google Earth, Skype, etc) for years.

Re: Speculation about the next firmware (PR1.2?) and its release date
 

probably: bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes and uhmm oh yeah! bug fixes.

We wont get any extra's! only when we yet again buy a new phone

Re: Speculation about the next firmware (PR1.2?) and its release date
 

You should double your expectations.

I doubt we will get even one of those.

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I dont think Nokia will be so dumb as to not to implement it on N900. It is quite aware of the popularity of the device and know that people will stop buyin if its unavailable. My guess we should hv it till march. Till tat time jus lets put all the pressure on them by spamming all nokia centers with free turn by turn navigatio questions;)

Re: Does anyone know when the next firmware (PR1.2?) is expected?
 

Its a great idea to not be prompted for an action you have already tried to execute.

for example...lets take the iphone, although I think the N900 is a better device and highly more configurable. Has anyone ever noticed that when you ask the iphone to do something there is no response back to the user unless the action failed which make the UE (User Exprience) in the GUI so much nicer and slick, not to mention faster. Where nokia falls down on the GUI side of things is that their interfaces sometime provide too much feedback.

For instance why do i need a message from the hildon desktop saying "bluetooth activated" when i have just selected to turn the thing on. wouldn't it be obvious that it is activated if i just asked the system to turn it on. In the event of the system returning any sort of message back to the user, it should be an error message ...i.e "bluetooth activation unsuccessful" or something like that. My point being many more notification messages generated by the UI should only be there to display error messages to inform the user that the required action had failed. If no message was displayed when the user asked the system to do something then take it for granted that the task was executed successfully.

If many users disagree with this suggestion then as an alternative maybe have a confirmation one can switch on and off i.e "supress system notification messages"

Cheers

Thoughts and comments on a postcard please

Re: Does anyone know when the next firmware (PR1.2?) is expected?
 

That Tuesday is this Tuesday :)