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Yes, indeed it runs is most of cases even better, because there's no tearing. I know it sounds weird, but we are not using full cpu in most of the times, so battery life will be great with Canola2. The thing is, there's indeed some cpu heavy operations that will take a little bit more time on 770 like scaling pictures, rotating, loading creating thumbnails and in the future (the video thumbnails etc)

So, while in this beta some of the hardware keys are not ready ( I talked about that in my previous post in my blog) the 770 screen is really not a helpful thing for the kinetic things, but the hardware shortcuts will help this device.

So, I updated the video with a bigger one, showing some parts that we didn't showed before :

http://blip.tv/file/542322/

Enjoy. (sorry for missing some buttons, while doing the video I was looking to the camera canvas, not to the device)

BR

Looks great, can't wait to load this up. I leave for a trip on wednesday evening I'm hoping I can have Canola by then.

Handful, any update on the legal issues ? Any idea what kind of timeframe we're looking at ?

The more videos I see, the more I want it, maybe I should just stop checking this thread.

Hey guys,

I actually need to clarify that this is not the Lawyers fault. It's that as we are not experienced we calculated badly the time frame for them. As far I as can tell, they already in the last portion of the check, so I really really believe is this next week. Because then it's Christmas, then new years, and most of the team will travel at least a couple of days to meet their families.

So, I'm really anxious to be able to release it before the end of the next week.

Marcelo

ps: So I will not post any more videos =)

NO! Post more and more videos until the launch!

=) I have some experiments for my "design post" with Canola running... as video, so I will post them. Also I did some experiments with poping out the card from my camera and loading into the n800 to see how canola deals with a 6mp camera photos.

1) Photos : as expected the first loading took more time (thumbnailer in action)
2) It took a little longer (of course) to load, but they still loaded with pretty alpha blending etc.
3) Slideshow with transition also worked fine.

Of course there's still room for improvements, like zooming and panning. but we will try to solve file formats and speed up it first.

=) Podcast will also need some love, but I already liked how the widgets were implemented. I was worried after we (design) it, that how it was going to work. actually one thing is bothering me : when the file is too big takes a lot of time to the progress bar to show someting. so I think we will add some kind of looping animation there. But this could cost a lot of cpu power for a very little effect.

Well

=)

No Canola Christmas cheer yet? <sniff>

UPDATE: Oh, oh. Do I hear jingle bells?!!?

i got canola 2 all installed and it works and looks GREAT!!!!!!only thing i would request is that when playing music , in the now playing list some make it so i can see all of th song title thats playing , or preferably let me have the whole playlist up there to view

I just installed canola 2 beta and it looks great

§$%&/( i'm missing some repos ! Could someone who got it installed port their sources.list ?


EDIT: Nevermind...


AWESOME!!!