Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business
by htns on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:52PM
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I think that's from a n800 or n810, which had no phone functionality and were based on gtk+ rather than Qt/QML. n900 calendar was totally different.
Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business
by honkhonkpants on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:56PM
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Yes, that appears to be from the N8xx. The N800 was contemporaneous with the iPhone so I don't feel this is an unfair comparison. It shows how Nokia had the notion of touchscreen UIs completely wrong.
Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business
by htns on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:20PM
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I still insist it's an unfair comparison because the linux tablets were a minor sideshow to the symbian phones. Then of course it's a fair comparison in that symbian wasn't great either, but at least they didn't just minimally repurpose a desktop UI.
Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business
by reitanqild on Thursday July 28, 2016 @11:52PM
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Expected something awful.
That looks decent.
Can't touch anything, touch targets are all too small, so you are forced to use the stylus. Visually it looks like the love child of BeOS and KDE. can't tell from a static screenshot but everything was unbelievably slow.