Thread: N900 - Yes, it sucks.
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iJanne is offline iJanne
2009-11-26 , 09:37
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#396
Originally Posted by BatPenguin View Post
Yep, it's all about who's looking at it and what you compare it to. The scrolling issue, in my opinion, is totally just a matter of what you are used to. The N900 in those videos looks much more smooth than my N810. And the web page scrolling looks as good as my HTC Hero (Android 1.5). On the other hand, scrolling between the home screens looks quite laggy to me, certainly not up to my Android device's smoothness and in fact pretty bad-looking, to me. I've seen that in previous videos too...it does NOT look smooth when people move between the home screens. I hope they fix that, as flicking through home screens is the first thing anybody will probably do when they pick up the device for the first time. Not the best first impression if you come from Android/iPhone.
I just flicked through my home screens and there was nothing to complain about. Sure, I guess I could see it at times skip a frame, but the motion was fast and end-result very usable.

Maybe it is just me, but I associate seriously bad scrolling with slowness and judder that causes usability problems. That is not what I am experiencing with the home screen or the browser or the media-player. Sure, maybe they can and should continue to smoothen things since they seem to irritate people, but the most important thing, usability is in my opinion very much there. At - again - over twice the pixels on screen compared to iPhone 3GS.

Just to be sure I flicked through a couple of more home screens and again, nothing wrong, nothing to complain about in my opinion. It does what I ask it to do and it does it fast. Very usable.

it just proves the platoform is not quite ready for all mainstream users
Why does that need proving? Everybody should know it is not ready for mainstream users, even Nokia says that is Maemo 6 time. This is an open mobile computer for developers and tech-heads. From that perspective and with those expectations, I've yet to see anything like in on the market, anything from a mainstream company anyway which has a half a chance at a future as a platform.
Last edited by iJanne; 2009-11-26 at 09:41.
 

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