Comments on: Video: 30 minutes with MeeGo-Harmattan on Nokia N950 http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/ Random, informal Nokia blog for Nokia, Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo and Windows Phone news, reviews, rants, suggestions and applications. Fri, 25 May 2012 02:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Videos: Bunch of Nokia N9 feature http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-144008 Videos: Bunch of Nokia N9 feature Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:19:06 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-144008 [...] contacts, GPS, Gallery, Web, MyAccounts, Email and Angry Birds. If you took a look at the recent half-hour N950 video you can see if any improvements there are on MeeGo-Harmattan with the [...] [...] contacts, GPS, Gallery, Web, MyAccounts, Email and Angry Birds. If you took a look at the recent half-hour N950 video you can see if any improvements there are on MeeGo-Harmattan with the [...]

]]> By: Hypnopottamus http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143626 Hypnopottamus Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:33:06 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143626 You seem to have put alot of thought into this. Thank you. Now that you mention it, this does seem kind of annoying. This UI is so new, it will take some getting use to. Maybe after using it for a while it may be more intuitive than it seems. I'm willing to give it a try! You seem to have put alot of thought into this. Thank you. Now that you mention it, this does seem kind of annoying. This UI is so new, it will take some getting use to. Maybe after using it for a while it may be more intuitive than it seems. I’m willing to give it a try!

]]> By: Jesse http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143506 Jesse Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:00:23 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143506 I have wondered that too, but what would you like to see there? Some have said notifications, which might be an interesting way to do it as long as they only show up when the phone is unlocked. Only concern there is it would then take up too much screen. Kind of like how it is mostly out of the way when I just need to change volume in a game really quick. I have wondered that too, but what would you like to see there? Some have said notifications, which might be an interesting way to do it as long as they only show up when the phone is unlocked.

Only concern there is it would then take up too much screen. Kind of like how it is mostly out of the way when I just need to change volume in a game really quick.

]]> By: Jesse http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143487 Jesse Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:31:53 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143487 When you open an Application in Meego and swipe you pretty much go back and not home because there isn't really a home. So if you are in the notifications screen and click a post from facebook it takes you to the facebook app, when you swipe you go back to the notifications screen. If you are on the multitasking screen and you click on facebook it goes to facebook, you swipe and it goes back to the Multitasking Screen. You are in facebook and you open a new screen and you swipe and it goes back to the multitasking screen. To be fair this is an interesting issue with Harmattan in general because there is no home screen and there is no home or back button. From a UX standpoint it seems very frustrating. Especially if every appliation will need a virtual back button. Seems it would be better to have swipe go back or have some gesture that would act as a way to go back. Just feels like they took two steps forward in using natural gesture ux and then 5 steps back with clunky virtual back buttons which are in reality going to be used just as much if not more than the swipe to go back to their three screens. When you open an Application in Meego and swipe you pretty much go back and not home because there isn’t really a home. So if you are in the notifications screen and click a post from facebook it takes you to the facebook app, when you swipe you go back to the notifications screen. If you are on the multitasking screen and you click on facebook it goes to facebook, you swipe and it goes back to the Multitasking Screen. You are in facebook and you open a new screen and you swipe and it goes back to the multitasking screen.

To be fair this is an interesting issue with Harmattan in general because there is no home screen and there is no home or back button. From a UX standpoint it seems very frustrating. Especially if every appliation will need a virtual back button. Seems it would be better to have swipe go back or have some gesture that would act as a way to go back.

Just feels like they took two steps forward in using natural gesture ux and then 5 steps back with clunky virtual back buttons which are in reality going to be used just as much if not more than the swipe to go back to their three screens.

]]> By: Jay Montano http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143414 Jay Montano Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:34:55 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143414 Surprisingly simple but very clever to put controls other than volume there. Wish it had more things though. Surprisingly simple but very clever to put controls other than volume there. Wish it had more things though.

]]> By: Eugen http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143410 Eugen Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:33:18 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143410 WP7 has more than that - volume rocker brings music player controls in any app, not just on lock screen. WP7 has more than that – volume rocker brings music player controls in any app, not just on lock screen.

]]> By: 30minütiges (!!!) Video vom Nokia N950 « S60inside http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143366 30minütiges (!!!) Video vom Nokia N950 « S60inside Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:39:12 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143366 [...] Link [...] [...] Link [...]

]]> By: Nrde http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143229 Nrde Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:23:10 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143229 I think the CPU is only 800MHz, also it hasn't gotten any SW updates since June or so. I think the CPU is only 800MHz, also it hasn’t gotten any SW updates since June or so.

]]> By: Peter L http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143180 Peter L Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:31:16 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143180 "Scrolling in the whole browser section seemed laggy..." Yes, there seemed to be a some lag at that particular point, but I think it had something to do with the page just been loaded. "The biggest issue I have with the Swipe gesture is..." Where exactly is the swipe gesture a back button? It certainly is not a back button in Meego-Harmattan. "As for menu dialogs..." Check the link ssdh pasted. "The notifications screen is great..." I agree that the full integration of social networks to the OS itself would be absolutely great, but I don't think there's currently any OS out there that achieves that any better. I give you the search point, it is there, but I guess it's not particularly highlighted feature. “Scrolling in the whole browser section seemed laggy…”

Yes, there seemed to be a some lag at that particular point, but I think it had something to do with the page just been loaded.

“The biggest issue I have with the Swipe gesture is…”

Where exactly is the swipe gesture a back button? It certainly is not a back button in Meego-Harmattan.

“As for menu dialogs…”

Check the link ssdh pasted.

“The notifications screen is great…”

I agree that the full integration of social networks to the OS itself would be absolutely great, but I don’t think there’s currently any OS out there that achieves that any better.

I give you the search point, it is there, but I guess it’s not particularly highlighted feature.

]]> By: ssdh http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/video-30-minutes-with-meego-harmattan-on-nokia-n950/comment-page-1/#comment-143150 ssdh Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:00:17 +0000 http://mynokiablog.com/?p=25005#comment-143150 How can that be confusing to you?? "Swiping from the edge" is similar to the home button, while the "virtual back button" (always found on the lower left corner toolbar) is to go back one page, inside a program/app with multiple layers or pages... About the menus and dialogs, just look in here to know what their differences are and on what context these are used for... http://www.developer.nokia.com/swipe/ux/pages/Dialogue_and_Menus.html How can that be confusing to you??

“Swiping from the edge” is similar to the home button, while the “virtual back button” (always found on the lower left corner toolbar) is to go back one page, inside a program/app with multiple layers or pages…

About the menus and dialogs, just look in here to know what their differences are and on what context these are used for…

http://www.developer.nokia.com/swipe/ux/pages/Dialogue_and_Menus.html

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