Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2011-09-08 , 16:30
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Gerbick/Marxian, just bumping these 3x posts, if you've got a minute, cheers!

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
That's exactly what happened to the November 2009 released Nokia N900. As early as late last year, folks were getting offers for other phones to them.
2 years, despite EU requirements wasn't followed for the Nokia N900. The faith to do so for the Nokia N9 is more than likely wasted despite anything they've said.
Oh I know, there are cases of this happening...
But are they not isolated incidents relating to shortages in local service centres?*
Nokia hasn't yet switched completely to "anything but N900" has it?

Even if it has, my points about the N900 support being quite different to the N9 remain.
"If" if the N9 sells better, & "if" Nokia doesn't try to kill it sooner in spite of that.
And the N900 actually 1st came out, as early as August/Sept didn't it?

*i.e. because of having to wait many more weeks than initially planned, customers are offered a N8/E7 as an alternative.

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Originally Posted by marxian View Post
As it stands, from an end user perspective, I don't see much to differentiate this device from the likes of the iPhone..
Surely an exaggeration? At least for N9's running the latest builds.

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Originally Posted by marxian View Post
This is partly due to the lack of homescreens and widgets,
to be replaced by a half-baked solution whereby applications can display state-dependent information.
Isn't the live apps screen basically just a homescreen with widgets*, I dont get what the problems is?
Yes in some ways it's a backward step from Maemo, but certainly not compared to iOS or stock Android.

Also, there is too much reliance on the iPhone-like grid of icons.
I hardly ever need to go to the application list in Freemantle.
Yeah why not make the application list also the multi-tasking list, & thus reduce the homescreens to 2.
You could make it clear which apps are running, by making them brighter or similar.
But I guess such an approach would bring some of it's own usability problems.

What don't you like about the grid of icons in the application list, how's it any diff to Maemo?

*better in some respects, because it's the actual app, not an abstraction of it.
Last edited by jalyst; 2011-09-08 at 17:53.