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#35
Originally Posted by jolo View Post
...We were not trying to overload them with too much functionality, as we have a great browser on the phone, we want people to use that. (...) getting power consumption right, you don't want widgets to kill your battery.
Fair enough, you call the N900 an internet tablet with added cellular connectivity... But since that is the case, I wont be connected via WIFI all the time but using the cellular network to transfer data. Now bear in mind that the facebook front page - and not only the facebook frontpage but several frontpages of other sites - with all scripts, ads and such is quite heavy and puts a HUGE STRESS on my 250MB chunk of free data per month. Unfortunately thats the biggest amount available from my provider and if I have to rely on the browser and it loading the full desktop experience for everything, those 250MB will be depleted in a weeks time, at most. And after that thats 10 cent per MB started. Ouch...

So speaking of getting the power consumption right, you should maybe, just maybe also think of getting the data consumption right. Having the full desktop like internet experience at hand is awesome, but I'd like to chose when to fire it up, please.

Although I guess I'm way to late with that request as the Firmware is most likely already finalised at exactly this moment and it would require quite some programming to spit out clients/apps for several mobile services/appliances which one has to rely on the browser for now. Altough you could also spend the browser a mobile option so it identifies itself as a mobile device, as the user whishes it to do so. Quickly done and would help the data consumption massively until those apps pop up, if they ever do...

Last edited by schaggo; 2009-11-10 at 01:06. Reason: Fingers faster than brain...