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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Tried that. FBReader just feels too small. MicroB/Tear usable but I am constantly tempted to switch to full screen.
Neither of these browsers easily allows one to zoom in or out to read text in optimal size. Nor does the hardware have an accelerometer to switch to landscape mode. N900 will do the latter, and if I were to bet I'd put my money on the former as well (as will Palm Pre and G2). Did you ever notice all those people who'd like to e-mail in landscape mode instead of portrait mode on a certain device from a Nokia competitor?

So, what was the purpose of this experiment? Were you trying to prove that smaller screen is "still ok" or what? Because the miracle you expected has not happened: all the use cases described before in this thread felt constrained and less comfortable.
Making choices doesn't work like you put it except maybe for you (a special case if I may say so). You're a special case, an exception to the rule. The market does not and will probably not easily please you precisely because of that. So you must team up with those who feel alike (as I said earlier in a post make your own hardware).

The question is not if it is less comfortable for you. We know you value the screen size. The question is if it is acceptable for potential customers, for which percentage of potential customers it is not acceptable, and whether that percentage qualifies for an other product which fullfills their need (an add-on product or a stand-alone product). That is the question for Nokia or anyone else has to make. And they're commercial decisions in almost all cases. We're not all multi-million philantropists like Sean Moss-Pultz. So if we go back to reality 101 the screen size of devices didn't stop people from buying an iPhone or G1 whereas stability and lack of 3G were serious issues in OpenMoko. Stability of 3G in iPhone was also a concern for early adopters; at least here in my country, and TMO was partly to blame for that.
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