Thread: Nokia N900 RX-51 New Tablet/Smart Phone Pictures And Specification - Revealed
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gerbick
2009-08-10 , 18:49
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Originally Posted by pataphysician View Post
So someone took the igoogle (or other similar) gadget that anyone can use in a webbrowser and made it into an app? I have an n800, but I have a external bluetooth gps receiver, so I can just grab my gps coordinates(from the status bar app) and past them into location on igoogle's movies near me gadget, and viola it shows me movies near my gps location, or I could just use zip code or city if I didn't want to bother with exact location, which I rarely need.

So sure one could "polish up" this procedure, but the question for me would be why. It's a rarity that I would actually use it and need gps data, I would have to make sure I have that external app installed, instead of just using a regular webpage. Also with igoogle I can have a bunch of usefull gadgets on one screen.
N800 + external Bluetooth GPS isn't the same experience at all. That's two gadgets, two chargers, two batteries to worry about, and if one isn't properly sync'd at that moment, you have to wait.

As it stands, the iPhone apps aren't really all that spectacular to me either. But I'm not going to Fred G. Sanford (Sanford and Son reference) my way to a similar experience either.

I don't own any of the iFart apps, waste o' time. But the Fring, the Skype, Nimbuzz (which isn't on the Nokia N810, only via web badly) and other things aren't as good on the aforementioned combination. A one piece, location aware piece of kit is great.

The N810 really missed out on using the GPS for that kind of stuff in a lot of apps. And the N800+bluetooth GPS isn't much better. And the whole "I don't like the iPhone apps" mantra usually comes from people that have only read about it or somehow have issues with apps on that platform that actually work quite well.

A location aware Twitteriffic/Twitter app is cool, imho. Doesn't exist in Diablo. Will exist in Fremantle.
 

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