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#75
Originally Posted by nilchak View Post

Cut-n-paste functionality -
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Very much needed.


DPad -
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for scrolling at least - cant always use finger scrolling for a long text document say ... thats tiresome.
also for Games as others mentioned.


Rotation :
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I would expect a modern day platform to support rotation in both landscape and portrait quite frankly. There are many time I just want to read something in portrait mode - and this should be a device platform specific function - not an application specific.
Whats the use of that accelerometer if not for rotation ?

So biq question - will Harmattan which is supposed to have Qt built in support better rotation ?
It is dishearting to see how Nokia stumbles in its strategy. If they cannot support rotation on the OS, get a life guys. Take a break!
You had 2 years since the last Maemo device was launched (N810) and 2 years from when the iPhone was launched to learn and do things.
I told them, get some Russian or Romanian programmers, they are good and fast, or get some US or Israeli programmers (but they are 10x more expensive). From my experience forget about India or you have to baby step them with every small instruction.

If Nokia cannot get rotation and copy-paste at OS level, they can have a break, enjoy French riviera, come back and use Android. Forget about Symbian or Maemo, if they are always behind the rest of the OSes. Nokia cannot deliver anymore, they are stuck with burreucracy and the wrong vision.

OS version update (over the network/air)
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OS update, Nokia does not support OS version update. This makes life hard for everybody, for programmers to support Symbian v3, v3-fp1, v3-fp2, v5, for Nokia to support all these version on the systems, and even worst they play and dance after the operator music. This is not possible any longer, there are too many combination of operators/countries/version of OSes possible that makes everything so slow. This is why ovi store took taht long, to accustomize it to every market, operator, OS version, phone model, etc. Too much burreacracy at Nokia, too many standards. Try to force OS update (like Microsoft forces its patches over the network, and how Apple give for free to old iPhone users the new OS v3), and have a unified OS. Use Symbian v5 even for non touch devices, without the touch. Use one OS version for Symbian, one OS version for Maemo, and get rid of the s40. But hurry up, before the boat sinks completely.

Last edited by Architengi; 2009-06-10 at 20:54.
 

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