Comments on: Nokia is Listening to its Customers http://blog.tokash.org/2007/01/11/nokia-is-listening-to-its-customers/ Gadgets, Games, Hacks, Code Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Olivier Mengué http://blog.tokash.org/2007/01/11/nokia-is-listening-to-its-customers/#comment-856 Olivier Mengué Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:21:45 +0000 http://blog.tokash.org/2007/01/11/nokia-is-listening-to-its-customers/#comment-856 I agree with Andreas: my Palm V had software upgrades. The first one, from 3.1 to 3.3 was even free. But there is another reason why N770 owners (and also N800) are expecting free upgrades: what you get is a finished product at the hardware level, but absolutely not at the software level. I own a N800 for 5 days and I think that many applications suffer from usability problems, even if it has the latest software. For example, the Notepad of my Palm V is much more usable than the one on the N800 which is too similar to a desktop application. On the Palm V, the application opened directly to the latest file. Also, there was no "save". Every change was always saved. If want to undo, just choose Undo. In the PDF viewer, the hardware keypad is useless when you are in fullscreen at zoom > 100% : it moves inside the page, but you have to trigger the menu to go to the next page. In the web browser, the keypad is also useless because the keys moves from one link to the other. I would prefer if left and right key would act as PgUP/PgDn as in OperaMini. I agree with Andreas: my Palm V had software upgrades. The first one, from 3.1 to 3.3 was even free.

But there is another reason why N770 owners (and also N800) are expecting free upgrades: what you get is a finished product at the hardware level, but absolutely not at the software level. I own a N800 for 5 days and I think that many applications suffer from usability problems, even if it has the latest software.

For example, the Notepad of my Palm V is much more usable than the one on the N800 which is too similar to a desktop application. On the Palm V, the application opened directly to the latest file. Also, there was no “save”. Every change was always saved. If want to undo, just choose Undo.

In the PDF viewer, the hardware keypad is useless when you are in fullscreen at zoom > 100% : it moves inside the page, but you have to trigger the menu to go to the next page.

In the web browser, the keypad is also useless because the keys moves from one link to the other. I would prefer if left and right key would act as PgUP/PgDn as in OperaMini.

]]> By: Andreas http://blog.tokash.org/2007/01/11/nokia-is-listening-to-its-customers/#comment-855 Andreas Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:36:36 +0000 http://blog.tokash.org/2007/01/11/nokia-is-listening-to-its-customers/#comment-855 PalmOS and upgrades. My Palm V did get at least two major OS upgrades. the latest one to version 4.1 ca 2002, Not to shabby for a product launched in 1999. PalmOS and upgrades. My Palm V did get at least two major OS upgrades. the latest one to version 4.1 ca 2002, Not to shabby for a product launched in 1999.

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