Thread: The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
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2007-10-19 , 02:00
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Originally Posted by CrossBow View Post
iPhone: Very Fast, smooth 2D inertial scrolling with just a flick of the thumb.
I agree that inertial/momentum finger scrolling would go a long way to improve the finger parts of the Nokia UI

Nokia: If you hack root access, install terminal, learn vi, and edit an .ini file you can get slow, clunky scrolling with the d-pad. Apparently there is still no scroll wheel.
Actually, on my N800, I get pretty fast scrolling from the d-pad. MUCH faster than finger scrolling or stylus scrolling. Just hold it down, and watch the web page whiz bye.

iPhone: Multiple ways of nearly instant, continuous zoom. Just double tap to make a certain column of text readable (depending on the web page).
Nokia: A few pre-set zoom levels that are unaware of the structure of the page. Usable via keys on the top, or several taps away, in a menu.
I don't have much of a problem with the Nokia here. Could it be better? sure. Is it inadequate now? no.

Also, the on-screen keyboard on the iPhone *IS* useable. It's the best on-screen keyboard, I have ever seen. IMHO, the finger type thing on my N770 was 100% unusable.
Perhaps the N800 is better than 770 on this, but I find that I like the N800's finger keyboard more and more. The only thing I do NOT like about it is that it gets in teh way of seeing the underlying application. Otherwise, I like it a lot.

When I used the iPhone in the store, with its on-screen keyboard, I hated it. No where near as comfortable nor accurate, for me, as the N800's full screen keyboard.


After what Apple has done, and after how great the N800 is, Apple would really have to perform some major coup to get me back. The iPhone and the iPod Touch just aren't worth my money. They don't do what I need (without risking bricking your phone) ... that might change in February, but at this point it's too little too late. Merely finally releasing a native toolkit, this late in the game, wont win me back.

But, then, I'm still trying to figure out just how annoyed by the N810 I am. If the next IT has some more of those annoyance factors AND Apple pulls their heads out of their butts, maybe I will go back. Most likely, though, both camps will annoy me, so as long as Nokia's new designs annoy me less than Apple's attitudes, I'll probably stay with the Nokia ITs.