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2009-09-22
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Originally Posted by qole
I think the term for the feature is Continuously Adaptive Backlighting - aka kinetic brightness
The proximity sensor is right near the light sensor, which is designed to make the screen get brighter and darker, repeatedly, as a left-hander scrolls down a web-page.
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2009-09-22
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Or powersave.
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They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by daperl
Here is a nice demo in French: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xag...-sous-mae_tech
Granted, I haven't seen a phone-call-while-doing-something-else demo, ...
At about 4:00 the first call comes in. If you continue watching, you will see several calls and text message notifications for this, obviously very popular, guy.
Regarding Bounce: I recall a video showing Bounce continue to run and respond to the accelerometers while task switching, but when another task was selected it paused automatically. I am pretty sure that's how the final version will (read, should) work.
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by skalogre
Oh, how I hate this on my N810. The light sensor is always where I put my finger for holding the N810.
I think the term for the feature is Continuously Adaptive Backlighting - aka kinetic brightness
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2009-09-23
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Has anybody tried out what the calendar can do?
I would be interested to know how well repeating events work. Can one remove occurrence from middle of repeat? Can one remove occurrences from selected occurrence to the last occurrence in one go? Can one modify single occurrence of repeat so that it does not modify the other occurrences?
I would be interested to know how well repeating events work. Can one remove occurrence from middle of repeat? Can one remove occurrences from selected occurrence to the last occurrence in one go? Can one modify single occurrence of repeat so that it does not modify the other occurrences?
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by lemmyslender
OK. I just wanted to underline that part.
That's kind of my point. If a more technically inclined user is having issues, imagine a non-technically inclined user.
While what you say may be true in some circumstances its also true a technical user has different values than a non-technical user, and will therefore experience different issues.
For example, in this case the user is used to BB and its keyboard and compares his N900 experience with that.
Having someone who is more technically inclined be very excited, then after using the device change their opinion down to "I'll wait and see" from "I want in now!", to me this indicates it may be slow to be adopted, or get a lot of returns.
Also, the conclusion is at least not something like totally a bummer.
Since Nokia has lower market penetration in US than in EU, you can expect more people who are not using a Nokia product in US. And, it is questionable whether it is of value that a reviewer is currently a Nokia user.
So, yeah, I am far, far more interested in initial user experiences from non or less technical inclined people than from non-Nokia users. Although not right away after product is launched because there are always rough edges in initial stages a product is launched. My rule of thumb is to not buy a product right after it is released, so I'd fall in the 'waiting' category, even though I may be enthusiast.
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by aSIMULAtor
Thanks for the reply. Although I expected something like that for an incoming call while already on another call, it sounds like it's an easy to use feature.
If you have one ongoing call that's a cellular call for example, then you get an incoming call via SIP and you answer it, it puts the cellular call on hold and you can switch back and forth from the cellular call to the SIP call. It's easy to switch back and forth calls as there's an "on hold" strip at the top of the screen which you can press on.
hope this helps.
I am more interested in the case of receiving two calls at approximately the same time. If someone dials my google voice number it forwards to several phones at the same time (including my cell number and my SIP number). When I'm in an area with wifi coverage, I'd prefer to answer the SIP call, not the cellular call.
I assume my cell number will ring first, and by the time I pick up/ get out the N900, the SIP call will be ringing as well. Is it easy to differentiate between the two call types? Then I could ignore the cell call and answer the SIP call.
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by timsamoff
The main menu _is_ pausing the game. If you tap outside the buttons, it will continue the game where you left off. Incidentally I just got a skype call while in bounce, and it appears to have paused the game.
Bounce needs a lot of work atm. It doesn't pause at all and accidentally touching the screen (or a hardware button) takes you back to the main menu of the game. So, while this hasn't happened to me yet, I'm expecting that an incoming call would exit the current play and take you back to the menu.
Tim
Switching to the tasklauncher while in the game (using the keyboard shortcut) still keeps the game running though. I don't know if this is sensible, but you have to admit that it makes for great demonstrations (and ultimately bounce isn't much more than a tech demo right now)!
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by ragnar
Thanks for this - it's the perfect solution. I had a number of SE phones in the past which all featured such a function. It really is outstanding usablity.
We also thought that many calls would be started not by starting the Call app, but rather click on the person (or select from the contact book) and then select to call him/her. [...]
You can just start to type on the Home view and that will start to search the contact book.
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