Thread: N900 specs revealed
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2009-05-26 , 00:22
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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
Still, launching finger keyboard while pressing with a finger, launching stylus keyboard while tapping with a stylus, it was a nice idea.
Also the stylus/finger sized menus!

Nobody is pulling their stylus out just to start typing.
I am, actually. Even on the N810 (while ironically also sliding the keyboard out so I can access the d-pad), it's just faster for anything other than purely alphabetic input.

But the latter part actually I don't get. The Maemo 5 UI is far better than Maemo 3, in virtually every regard. Using it is a much more pleasurable experience. Where do you even get the idea that it would be optimized for eye candy? That we wouldn't optimize for the screen estate? That the designers would have suddenly gone insane? How can you even say that?
Well, I can only judge from what I've seen in the pre-alpha/alpha/beta SDKs so admittedly there's not much to go on there yet and it's quite possible that the final on-device UI will be improved. Still, compare and contrast:



vs



or



vs (sorry, I couldn't find any online examples of the fremantle file chooser)



There is a lot of useful context lost in the Fremantle versions, and I don't think anyone would argue that what's left makes better use of the available pixels.

(PS - I'm not calling anyone insane!)
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