danramos | # 5471 | 2011-09-09, 05:57 | Report

danramos | # 5472 | 2011-09-09, 06:09 | Report

Oooo... also came across this... VERY fitting...

Microsoft’s Elop is Like Rick Belluzzo – Hijacks Nokia, Sells to Microsoft, Then Exits
http://techrights.org/2011/05/04/ste...hard-belluzzo/

Even the banner is a bucket of win:

jalyst | # 5473 | 2011-09-09, 06:50 | Report

http://twitpic.com/6i1psv
I smell an unboxing coming soon

OP by GlennL from WP forums.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...5543&p=41#r804

danramos | # 5474 | 2011-09-09, 07:04 | Report

...or something that looks like them, anyway... probably filled with lemon juice. You did say "eBay", right?

abbra | # 5475 | 2011-09-09, 07:35 | Report

There are two tile sizes in N9/50. Application is provided with information that it runs in switcher by the system and it can display its content accordingly. The fact that most applications don't do it is not an excuse.

There is a search app available. Also, don't forget about status bar on top, it expands on touch and is expandable by third-party widgets which can add other functionality (media, search, etc) without any issues.

What's more important is that interaction with any input-related widget would assume instantiating virtual keyboard. At this point widget becomes merely a launch point -- virtual keyboard would occupy good part of the screen estate and ideally input line would also adopt to remaining space meaning it becomes a real full screen application. So non-interactivity of a launch point is not really an issue.

N9/50 has a search application that allows you to search through your device's content. That includes all applications as well. When search application is launched, it shows you list of content items you have accessed recently, including those of recently launched apps. By typing into a search input line, you'll also get that list compacted to items relevant to your search phrase (type 'jpg', for example, and you'll see all jpegs on the device _and_ applications capable to process jpegs, like Gallery).

More importantly, Tracker exposes this information to all other -- third-party as well -- applications and they can take this information into account when organizing their own views.

You really need to play with the device.

vi_ | # 5476 | 2011-09-09, 07:57 | Report

lolwut, are we back to step 1 now?

jalyst | # 5477 | 2011-09-09, 07:59 | Report

I had planned to respond to Marxian with some further questions.
But it looks like you've answered most of them, thanks for that

jalyst | # 5478 | 2011-09-09, 08:05 | Report

I believe he's talking about bringing much of their IP garnered from the whole Maemo/Meego/Qt/UX experiment to WP.
I personally think it's madness if they do that using MS dev libraries/kits only, i.e. if MS refuses to let them port Qt.

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Stonik | # 5479 | 2011-09-09, 09:31 | Report

If Nokia is smart enough, they will use Harmattan and rebrand it as something else (NokiaOS?) to replace S40. Swipe UX, Qt Next Billion and touchscreen only 1 GHz devices - just like N9 today.

If this is as obvious as it seems (or I hope), Nokia finally has a truly winning strategy. All hail the new Linux-based S40 with Qt and Swipe.

marxian | # 5480 | 2011-09-09, 09:58 | Report

Yes, I know. I have written two applications myself. Even after many hours of tweaking and banging my head against a brick wall, I couldn't get cuteTube running on Symbian in a satisfactory way.

The hype doesn't match the reality. Try developing applications for multiple Nokia platforms, and you will see this for yourself. That's why we haven't seen all those Symbian Qt applications ported to Maemo 5, and vice versa. Even with Qt Components, there are still significant changes that need to be made to the UI code to target more than one platform. That's before you even come up against any Qt bugs and platform-specific workarounds.

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