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2007-01-10
, 10:23
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@ Tampere, Finland
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#11
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2007-01-10
, 13:18
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@ Vienna, Austria
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2007-01-10
, 13:44
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#13
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2007-01-10
, 14:08
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Joined on Oct 2005
@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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#14
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HWR could be good, but I for one isn't much interested in the T9 guesswork system. I know most people love it on their phones, but to me T9 has always been completely in the way, what it guesses at is never even close and it gets impossible to write anything. It's the first thing I disable when I get a new phone. I can enter text quickly one character by one anyway.
(If I ever wanted a mechanism like that then it should be like how abbrev-mode works in Emacs.)
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2007-01-10
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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#15
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While I'm of course always excited to learn about new technologies, I am not at all happy to learn that this is apparently planned for the N800.
Why? It's closed source, proprietary code again. When the original 770 came out and included some proprietary parts, my expectation was that they were used only for a quick start to fill in the gaps. I hoped that Nokia would either actively support free projects to supply alternatives or develop those alternatives and make them available as parts of the free platform.
With OS2007, it seems we're moving to the other side very quickly: First they announced Skype where they should have improved GTalk and SIP-handling. Now they include patented XT9 technology instead of trying to imprvove existing GPLed projects. What will be next?
Again, I'm not trying to say XT9 isn't a good thing. It certainly is. Such as MS Windows is a good operating system. I only wonder if the N800 maybe not only introduces technical changes, but also a change of concept: will the N900 be a closed, non-hackable box such as any other device?.
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2007-01-10
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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2007-01-10
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@ North Texas, USA
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2007-01-10
, 15:18
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@ Vienna, Austria
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#18
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If I have to choose between no Open Source solution and an excellent (from what I've been told) Closed Source one... Well, let's just say I won't be in dilemma for more than a couple of microseconds.
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2007-01-10
, 16:03
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@ UK
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2007-01-10
, 17:28
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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#20
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