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2009-11-12 , 19:52
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#31
Originally Posted by 11/(14-17)/09 View Post
Thats a super excellent question... I was wondering that exact thing. I remember using it on the n800, and it was by no means perfect, but worked for about 90% of the stuff I tried it on. Especially with the n900 having a HW keyboard, the onscreen keyboard would not be the problem it was with the n800 for rotation.
There's actually no need for this since the N900 natively supports portrait mode. It's a matter of sticking certain flags to the window. The applications supporting portrait mode do this themselves. For other applications, some tool could stick the flags onto their windows.
IIRC, thp once presented a proof-of-concept for such a tool.
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IIRC, thp once presented a proof-of-concept for such a tool.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31940
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
The Maemo development team seems strangely allergic to implement Symbian characteristics. Just saying.
I agree, and I don't understand it. Symbian owns the world when it comes to smartphones - the iPhone is a second tier player. One would think that the Maemo developers would have spent as much time studying what worked and what didn't on the Symbian platform as they did trying to improve Maemo 4.
 

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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post


Twitter aside. I never got the popularity of texting. You're holding a freakin' phone in your hand pounding out words one letter at a time to be sent to someone else who is also holding a phone in their hand... Duh!
Why is it so popular? Well in the UK when payg and phones really exploded into the mainstream (about 10 years ago) calls were expensive. You had teenagers buying phones, but unable to make calls! Texts back then were about 10p, whilst a call could cost you 80p a minute (with a minimum 1 minute charge.) So instead of wasting your credit calling someone, you sent a text.

Texting remains cheap as it uses very little data, so costs the networks very little. Hence, at least here, you get packages with unlimited texts but only 100/200 minutes.

That's one of main reasons no-one video calls (others being lack of support in many cheap handsets and crappy quality,) aren't popular. They are/were too expensive.
 

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Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
I agree, and I don't understand it. Symbian owns the world when it comes to smartphones - the iPhone is a second tier player. One would think that the Maemo developers would have spent as much time studying what worked and what didn't on the Symbian platform as they did trying to improve Maemo 4.
....and the answer is...... Touch screen!

18 months ago Maemo was Nokia's ugly stepchild. Maemo wasn't allergic to Symbian, it was more the other way around, imho.

Hell, Nokia's Symbian side of the house has department Vice Presidents in charge of "look and feel" among other things.

Maemo has a Doctor and a couple of guys named Jussi, Quim, and Peter.

(No dis^ that... They have done great with what I think were the limitted resources that were available to them... again imho.)

When I asked a hacker friend and symbian developer by trade what he thought about the upcoming N800 back when I saw him over the Holidays in 2006. He knew nothing about it and said if it was Symbian it wasn't going to go anywhere.

He has since left for other opportunities but the point is this: My friend Tripwire, and presumably other developers knew what symbian's limitations were back then, why weren't they involved with the development of OS2008 ?
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#36
Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
The Maemo development team seems strangely allergic to implement Symbian characteristics. Just saying.
So I'm not the only one that notices this. Symbian is legendary, and once had 70% of the market. It made alot of concepts that are the foundation for mobile computing and communications today. What are the former success stories used as case studies for Maemo? Or are they doing things with a fresh view? History and intellectual expertise needs to be leveraged better.

I know screen rotation will be an issue, but why has Maemo only now started down this road? And why has T9 never been implemented?
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