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Originally Posted by Spyker
We had better hope so. This is really boring and uninspired. If anything, it is what Symbian^4 could look like and get away with. All the talk about Maemo being a chance to do something beyond phones - there's nothing of that in today's release.
It's just a pre-alpha of the common UI design for the project... We have seen nothing yet. The Harmattan UI from Nokia may probably look quite different.
Not quite liking the fact that you can supposedly switch between the card switcher and grid switcher in Harmattan either. The advanced option should be the default, or even the only one, because even novices will benefit from it when they "get it". We're not talking vi level learning curves here.
This UI reeks of MeeGo finally becoming so big that the beancounters have started pushing it to a more mainstream mode of operation. But that will fail, because
a) Nokia doesn't need two Symbians
b) the N9 is at this point even more important as an advertising exercise than as a device, and it needs to make a big splash or Nokia's credibility is lost. Matching everyone else two years later is not enough. It needs to go where no one else will go, because Nokia is the only one that can tell all the people who can't handle it to buy Symbian instead.
c) the reference UI will probably be less advanced than the coming Android UI update.
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#83
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meego, who cares about it?
why are we using pr1.2
we should use pr1.1 to get free paid apps on ovi
why are we using pr1.2
we should use pr1.1 to get free paid apps on ovi
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2010-06-30
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#84
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One other thing came to mind: it better have widgets, or else I'm just going to stick with Maemo5.
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2010-06-30
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby
It already IS 'mid-2010' - June 30th. And Android 2.2 is just trickling out. So I'm gonna stick my neck out and predict the rumors were wrong.
Android 3 is rumored to already be in testing by various handset manufacturers with a release scheduled for "mid-2010". So, if those rumors are true, Android 3 should be available as a finished product to end users first, yes.
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2010-06-30
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Originally Posted by Parody
Like Symbian, MeeGo-Harmattan will support Nokia Web Runtime (WRT), which should bring loads of widgets. While I have not yet tried the plug-in for Aptana Studio, .
One other thing came to mind: it better have widgets, or else I'm just going to stick with Maemo5.
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2010-06-30
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Originally Posted by jnwi
so true...
We had better hope so. This is really boring and uninspired. If anything, it is what Symbian^4 could look like and get away with. All the talk about Maemo being a chance to do something beyond phones - there's nothing of that in today's release.
Not quite liking the fact that you can supposedly switch between the card switcher and grid switcher in Harmattan either. The advanced option should be the default, or even the only one, because even novices will benefit from it when they "get it". We're not talking vi level learning curves here.
This UI reeks of MeeGo finally becoming so big that the beancounters have started pushing it to a more mainstream mode of operation. But that will fail, because
a) Nokia doesn't need two Symbians
b) the N9 is at this point even more important as an advertising exercise than as a device, and it needs to make a big splash or Nokia's credibility is lost. Matching everyone else two years later is not enough. It needs to go where no one else will go, because Nokia is the only one that can tell all the people who can't handle it to buy Symbian instead.
c) the reference UI will probably be less advanced than the coming Android UI update.
I believe the look of the UI can be improved
... but I really miss the genius concept of Harmattan: having desktop filled with “operational” widgets (widgets which allows you to have almost full functionality of a application right on a screen without going into app itself) it was something that was making the UI ultra functional
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2010-06-30
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I find it funny the contrast between Engadget's commenters (they love it!) and TMO...Mainstream.
Oh and by the way are there any screenshots of the email application?
Oh and by the way are there any screenshots of the email application?
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2010-06-30
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Originally Posted by Odd_gunnic
I remember what Canola main dev said once:
I find it funny the contrast between Engadget's commenters (they love it!) and TMO...Mainstream.
Oh and by the way are there any screenshots of the email application?
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Originally Posted by ...boy
Yes, it will. At least have widgets in home screens..
When you look at Harmattan concept of having desktop filled with “operational” widgets (widgets which allows you to have almost full functionality of a application right on a screen without going into app itself) it was something to wait for, something that was making the UI ultra functional ...
... does anybody know if Harmattan UI will be implemented in Nokia version of MeeGo ???
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That's one reason I will stick with MeeGo and not Android.