Video: iOS vs MeeGo Harmattan, iPhone 4 vs Nokia N950 (dev phone)
Goc found a video comparing iOS powered iPhone 4 with MeeGo-Harmattan on Nokia N950 (dev phone). In this instance they’re comparing mostly the browser.
- Loading faster than the iPhone 4? Check.
- Scoring more points on HTML5 test? Check
- Looking attractive during phone navigation with all that swiping? Check
- We also see maps and contact list. I like how the little pins drop sequentially on iOS. That page curl thing looks pretty nifty too. Immediate free turn by turn, offline directions with N950/N9 though.
- Wow, just looking at the ease and brilliance of swipe in moving between apps. Nice job!
- Scrolling looks visibly faster on iPhone though in contacts. (I think if you flick swipe quickly, the list should move quite far. It’s not a deal breaker though. Maybe iPhone has a smaller window?). In browsing, the scrolling and pinch and zooming seems identical (which is a good thing since iPhone has one of the smoothest)
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Much brighter screen there..
WOW i Want now that damn Phone!
I’ve seen quite a few videos where people accidently minimise apps by swiping, like when he tries to swipe through the photos.
Could be annoying but maybe you’ll get used to it. Looks pretty good overall tho.
Could do with some text reflow as well.
u have to use it propely, long swipe = background, little swipe = changing photo or else… .
The problems come to the symbian user addicted to have ultra lag in the gesture recon… xD
Well actually, the key difference is whether you swipe from the phones edge. You can do a long swipe from inside the edge and it won’t minimise the app. If you do a short swipe from the edge it will start to minimise the app then snap back.
Using the phone ‘properly’ sounds dangerously like the famous apple comment of you just have to hold it properly.
Even in the map app when he tries to push a button you can see the button isn’t pushed and the app begins the minimise transition.
It probably won’t be a huge deal after a bit of usage. Really I’ll just wait and see some real world usage before getting too carried away with the hype.
The real knowing will come in the using.
Such new UI paradigms are often foreign/unintuitive, until you’ve actually used them for a while.
i.e.
until such time as it becomes 2nd nature to muscle mem etc.
I own a C7 and I see no lag in the photo gestures….I can view two photos side by side in full pixel count when i swipe….
Photo swiping is good yeah.
Homescreen swiping isn’t particularly tho, even after that leaked Anna on my N8. Don’t know if it will be further improved.
Note these dev phones aren’t as optimised as the internal n9′s too.
That’s not the point of the devs having them…
They’re not given the very latest builds that run on N9.
So we can expect better performance/functionality/stability than any of the N950′s can dish out.
I didn’t realize iPhone 4 was that slow compared to N9. And cramped. The browser and navigation were both so cramped in iPhone. N9 didn’t have too much things cramped into the screen. N9 is the clear winner here.
“Scrolling looks visibly faster on iPhone though in contacts. (I think if you flick swipe quickly, the list should move quite far.”
You forget that N9 doesn’t even need to have the scroll speed set as fast as in iPhone, since it has the handy side scroll bar thingy on the right side of the contact list, that shows alphabets and allows you to move very fast trough the whole contact list by sliding your finger up and down on it.
“You forget that N9 doesn’t even need to have the scroll speed set as fast as in iPhone, since it has the handy side scroll bar thingy on the right side of the contact list, that shows alphabets and allows you to move very fast trough the whole contact list by sliding your finger up and down on it.”
No not really forgotten. iPhone also already has that handy alphabetical thing.
To be fair, the iPhone4 is a one year old device. Not that it takes anything from the N9.
but the N9 has older processor than iP4…
It’s like watching 3GS beat iP4.
Agree!
Wow! I can’t believe Nokia ditched this for WP 7. I’m not really into the conspiracy theories, but if Elop really saw this when he started and decided not to go with it then it does indeed feel like he was seriously biased.
he must redo this video with better camera and light conditions…wtf…we hav our first video where we beat iPhone heads but wtf!!! the video quality is so damn bad it hurts my eyes and starts a headache…please if u like N9 remake the video…wtf u got to do this…pls do fast
Wondering if the speed of the internet connection on both phones is the same…