Thread: #JollaLoveDay - 20th May - device announcement
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2013-05-22 , 08:19
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Originally Posted by Win7Mac View Post
If something like this was introduced to next iphone, everybody'd go crazy about it. Not only because of battery or HWKB...
No they wouldn't, apart from maybe a few tech blogs - Apple attracts a whole different crowd which values simplicity and design above all things - and you can't beat unibody at those points. Do you honestly think that an average iPhone user would even dare to change covers when even proper multitasking appear threatening to him/her?


Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Why do you think HW drivers are so difficult to open? The chip/module vendors should have nothing against that, since the use of the drivers implies the use of the respective HW blocks, which implies higher sales for the said HW blocks.
Go tell that to Nvidia and AMD and a slew of other hardware manufacturers that are making our lives in the Linux userland quite difficult for decades now. These days hardware relies on software hooks much more than it ever had and putting the software in the open lowers competitiveness of many manufacturers. Pair that with the fact that from the software itself you can find out a lot about the underlying architecture and you get to a point where hardware manufacturers are very reluctant on releasing drivers and interface specs for their hardware.

Sadly, I don't see that changing anytime soon...


Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
That IMHO looks more of a TODO sort of a thing - they are still deciding how to expose the 9+ running apps (a shelf, folder, more desktops, just show them, etc.).
IMO, a horizontal edge swipe to get the next 'page' with 4x4 or 3x3 grid would be the best solution. They are not using any horizontal gestures on the home screen so that would come naturally. The thing is - would it be intuitive enough for the users?


Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
Both BB10 phones as well as 808 have physical contacts to the cover if only to enable NFC so mechanically adding 5 more contacts to have full usb shouldn't be an issue.
And that's exactly how they should do it - expose a proper USB interface and let the 3rd party manufacturers provide it with additional options you cannot think of at the moment. It doesn't have to impair on the device's natural USB function as well - for example SMSC's USB3503 host is dirt cheap and small enough not to cause any problems and it could provide the device with three proper USB2.0 ports, one of them reserved for the cover.

I don't think that at this point Jolla have enough strength to introduce a proprietary interface for that, so a proper USB2.0 interface would be perfect and if cleverly designed could let our imagination run wild. It all depends how serious are they with that 'Other Half' thingie...

Next on the list (if we are to go modular): swappable camera module and a proper hardware extension port with full system bus access and speed.
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