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2010-09-12
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I was very happy without a hardware keyboard on my N800. People talked about having "full access" to their screens -- it never seemed like that much of a problem to me -- when I wanted full access I just closed the virtual keyboard.
But the N900 virtual keyboard just seems useless to me -- I hate it. I would LOVE a virtual keyboard that seems to be right for me. The Opera keyboard, for example, seems nice.
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2010-09-12
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2010-09-12
, 04:39
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Swype is part of Touchwiz, if I'm not mistaken. Samsung-exclusive.
Regarding virtual keyboards, the best I've ever seen (honestly) is the iPhone's. Apparently the Droid X has a FANTASTIC vk, but I personally haven't tried it.
On another post I was mentioning the feeling of being a bit "left out" being a Maemo user, albeit a proud and happy one, from time to time.
I saw this discussion on virtual keyboards and remembered this.
It starts interesting, gets much more interesting in the end. Coming to Maemo/Meego?
Probably not a chance.
Also, someone mentioned here that the N9 screen is going to be resistive. Is that confirmed? I actually thought it was capacitive.
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2010-09-12
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#65
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Bada
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2010-09-12
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Android catches crap because it reinforces the notion that mobile devices like phones are somehow special, and require software that is completely unlike (and not compatible) with what you have on a standard PC.
We know this to be false, and seeing it continue only makes for wasted effort and a constant back and force in work to go from one platform to another. No other OS runs Android software but Android, not even other Java VMs. Even the *nix back-end is subtly incompatible, using a custom libc.
Maemo, and to a much greater extent Meego, (could) let us avoid this.
Will either fail completely, or be Samsung's replacement for Symbian.
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2010-09-12
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Err until Maemo runs on non Nokia devices with full functionality, it is just as closed as Android.
I have never run desktop applications on Symbian, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry so why should Android be any different? Google used Java because it is standard for mobile devices.
If Maemo so desktop like why isn't there Flash 10.1?
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2010-10-09
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2010-10-09
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2010-10-09
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knowing charbax, thats a non-approved install (hacked i guess i another word for it).
Last edited by railroadmaster; 2010-09-12 at 03:40.