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Giorgiom92 is offline Giorgiom92
2009-09-26 , 03:48
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First of all, hello everybody!!

I'm Italian, so, sorry about my bad English!



I'm really concerned about the function of the accelerometer in the new awesome Nokia N900...

As i have seen so far of this new nokia in internet articles etc,etc,it uses the "portrait mode" only for the phone function, so the rest of the amazing functions of this phone has to be used in "landscape mode" as an internet tablet with both hands.



Personally I would feel really disappointed if after having created a machine so powerful, they had eliminated the practicality and comfort of the accelerometer, and the wonderful ability to rotate the screen 180 degrees(or more), according to convenience, and continue to exploit the maximum performance of Maemo 5 in the Nokia N900 in vertical mode.
 
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2009-09-26 , 04:01
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Welcome aboard! Your English is good too, much better than my Italian. All I know is

Mama Mia!
Spaghetti!
It'sa me, Mario!
Fuhgettaboudit!

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Giorgiom92 is offline Giorgiom92
2009-09-26 , 04:10
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It's about both, the accelerometer because allows the screen to turn. And about the Portrait mode, because i'm really afraid that their only function is "phone mode" :S

Thanks a lot, i'm glad to be part of the team!!

LOL!!
I could teach you to speak Italian in exchange for you teach me to speak a better English!! :P
 
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2009-09-26 , 04:12
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Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat View Post
Welcome aboard! Your English is good too, much better than my Italian. All I know is

Mama Mia!
Spaghetti!
It'sa me, Mario!
Fuhgettaboudit!

you forgot to wave your hands around like a madman
 

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2009-09-26 , 04:15
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you forgot to wave your hands around like a madman
No I didn't.
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Giorgiom92 is offline Giorgiom92
2009-09-26 , 04:17
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Haha...
Cmon man!! that's only one skill of italian people.. =P ...

If want, you can also contribute with knowledge, about the "incert" ability of auto-screen rotation pre installed (i hope) on N900
 
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2009-09-26 , 04:17
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Yeah, at the moment, you can only use it in landscape mode. There have been many discussions on this board about getting either the entire os or specific apps to handle portrait mode. I would honestly vote as a YES for the portrait mode (for one handed use to check calls, status and read messages). But it seems that many of the actual developers actually disagree with NATIVE screen rotation because of the icons and widgets on the phone (they wouldn't render correctly, be it as it may in the same location or the same amount of objects on the screen).

So at the moment people are opting to just make apps that accept screen rotation, rather than full-on screen rotation natively on the phone.
 
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2009-09-26 , 04:34
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Originally Posted by zkyevolved View Post
But it seems that many of the actual developers actually disagree with NATIVE screen rotation because of the icons and widgets on the phone (they wouldn't render correctly, be it as it may in the same location or the same amount of objects on the screen).
This could be interpreted incorrectly, so:
  • The developers who work on the actual Maemo OS and first-party applications aren't here, so they haven't ever posted anything here expressing disagreement with rotation support.
  • A designer who works on the actual Maemo OS does frequent this site and he did say that rotating the home screen would be hard due to the design of the home screen and its freely placed widgets. Other people on this site (note: not OS developers or designers though) have agreed this assessment.
  • A few independent application developers have objected to universal ASR support because they interpreted that to mean that all applications would be forced to support both portrait and landscape.
  • Nokia has hinted that they're interested in trying to add portrait mode to some bundled applications via updates after Maemo 5 ships, though there's been no strong indication that the home screen would be changed.
  • Maemo 6, rumored to be released in about a year--maybe, seems to be Nokia's target for including universal ASR support. It appears quite possible that the N900 will be upgradeable to Maemo 6.
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2009-09-26 , 05:08
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
This could be interpreted incorrectly, so:
  • The developers who work on the actual Maemo OS and first-party applications aren't here, so they haven't ever posted anything here expressing disagreement with rotation support.
  • A designer who works on the actual Maemo OS does frequent this site and he did say that rotating the home screen would be hard due to the design of the home screen and its freely placed widgets. Other people on this site (note: not OS developers or designers though) have agreed this assessment.
  • A few independent application developers have objected to universal ASR support because they interpreted that to mean that all applications would be forced to support both portrait and landscape.
  • Nokia has hinted that they're interested in trying to add portrait mode to some bundled applications via updates after Maemo 5 ships, though there's been no strong indication that the home screen would be changed.
  • Maemo 6, rumored to be released in about a year--maybe, seems to be Nokia's target for including universal ASR support. It appears quite possible that the N900 will be upgradeable to Maemo 6.
You will buy anyway the N900, without automatic screen rotation?
 
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2009-09-26 , 10:10
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You will buy anyway the N900, without automatic screen rotation?
I sure will :P I'm sure we'll get portrait mode in the mainly needed apps as the phone matures. I already put in my preorder and I can't wait for it to come It's a great device. Always online, good graphics and very nice user interface. it's open source and it's LITERALLY top notch hardware, so it's going to disappear anytime soon.

Not to mention even if they DO replace it sometime soon, it has 32 gigs of memory, and a nice display and good codecs. So you can always use it as a media center ^^ haha. But that won't be my case.
 
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