Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-12 , 07:41
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#252
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Do you realize I'm not really looking for a win, but was just making a joke?

Anyway, I got from ragnar's arguments that he wants support for a d-pad or other such hardware eliminated completely. If my interpretation is wrong, mea culpa. I'd rather it be in the HAL and not supported by Nokia for whatever reason than completely removed.
No, I've not been saying that. I've tried to say for several times, so I'll say it again , that the approach should be "support, but do not require".

If you imagine building a platform with a whole bunch of devices - perhaps one day - a key way to differentiate devices is through their hardware characteristics, keys being one important part of it. So if you want to do a gaming device, you put gaming keys; a music device, put music keys; for device with a camera, a camera shutter key etc. Provided hard keys make the device different and unique, and also offer some benefit. But then again, the software should also work (practically) without any HW keys.

A camera key is an easy key to add, since it's easy to specify the functionality and the functionality makes sense in all cases.
 

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