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#71
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Originally Posted by krisse
I have no need to zoom in and zoom out to click on lists of links or use menus with my stylus-driven 770.
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2009-04-16
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Originally Posted by mullf
Nor do I on my finger-driven N800.
I have no need to zoom in and zoom out to click on lists of links or use menus with my stylus-driven 770.
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Originally Posted by mullf
You will have to zoom in and out on the next tablet too, but hopefully it can be done fast at the touch of a button.
Is there going to be a tutorial on how to use a finger-driven browser without having to zoom in and out all the time?
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2009-04-16
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Originally Posted by SD69
F*ck it, I'll use my 770 until it dies and hopefully by then there will be a some other stylus-driven, highres-screened tablet out there for me to choose from.
You will have to zoom in and out on the next tablet too, but hopefully it can be done fast at the touch of a button.
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2009-04-16
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#75
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I do have to zoom in and out and to use the terrible "fit to view" button, which I have to switch on and off when navigating back to media and content rich sites. A hardware button for the latter function would be great.
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2009-04-16
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#76
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Originally Posted by noventa98
"Fit Width to View" will not be present in Fremantle, so don't bank too much on getting a hardware button for it on associated devices.
...use the terrible "fit to view" button, which I have to switch on and off when navigating back to media and content rich sites. A hardware button for the latter function would be great.
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2009-04-16
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby
Thanks, I missed that news. Good riddance. But how will the net device allow users to magnify text and avoid horizontal scrolling? Or maybe we are in for some surprise from Nokia?
"Fit Width to View" will not be present in Fremantle, so don't bank too much on getting a hardware button for it on associated devices.
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2009-04-16
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#78
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Originally Posted by mullf
This is a really silly decision to make when you haven't even seen the device.
F*ck it, I'll use my 770 until it dies and hopefully by then there will be a some other stylus-driven, highres-screened tablet out there for me to choose from.
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2009-04-16
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#79
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Originally Posted by krisse
Nobody's interested in assigning blame, but somebody needs to step up and either kill it or decide they want to invest some time in it. This limbo state it's in right now isn't helpful for anybody.
Anyway, that's what's happened so please don't blame Reggie for stuff that isn't his fault.
Originally Posted by krisse
I disagree with most of the points in your post, and believe the metrics you're using to arrive at your conclusions are both inappropriate and inaccurate, but that's just me.
If the next maemo devices are products people are likely to buy in large numbers, I'll be back to do tutorials, but if they're just more hacker toys then there's absolutely no point bothering.
It's really as simple as this: we wouldn't be continuing to get new tablets if people weren't buying them.
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Hi Krisse, thanks for coming back. I hope you stick around! In my opinion you really made a difference in this community.
I disagree with all your assumptions but we have discussed this already and I understand it is an unfair dialog since I have access to the internal information. Still, you keep saying Maemo is kind of a dead-end and I keep saying that Nokia is investing heavily on it (like having new positions open in these times of layoffs everywhere, 3 of them opened just last week). I also wonder if you are aware of the information given to and extracted by the community from the Maemo 5 pre-releases.
Anyway, time will tell. Let me only say two things on your interesting post:
If you find it excellent then it means its purpose for the current Internet Tablets has been accomplised. Converting video is probably less and less relevant as hardware gets more powerful. In any case there are open source community alternatives filling the very same purpose. Why duplicate on a non-core use case? We better concentrate on the areas where the community can't reach so easily.
Ok, this is a concrete answer about Tablet School. What about Tablet Scene, the topic of this thread?
I disagree with all your assumptions but we have discussed this already and I understand it is an unfair dialog since I have access to the internal information. Still, you keep saying Maemo is kind of a dead-end and I keep saying that Nokia is investing heavily on it (like having new positions open in these times of layoffs everywhere, 3 of them opened just last week). I also wonder if you are aware of the information given to and extracted by the community from the Maemo 5 pre-releases.
Anyway, time will tell. Let me only say two things on your interesting post:
Originally Posted by krisse
I might be wrong, but maemo.nokia.com was conceived for Maemo 5 onwards. For the N810 (and N800) there was and is http://nokia.com/OS2008
the promised maemo.nokia.com (which was supposed to be the official consumer site for the N810) has failed to materialise
Even Nokia's software like their excellent Tablet Video Converter has been officially abandoned now.
If the next maemo devices are products people are likely to buy in large numbers, I'll be back to do tutorials, but if they're just more hacker toys then there's absolutely no point bothering.
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