N810 announced!
As other Nokians have already announced, the N810 was officialy announced! Some highlights from the Hildon side:
- Saner API and a more maintainable and closer-to-upstream GTK+ 2.10.x;
- Much improved theming infrastructure;
- Open source extensible input method framework;
- Control Panel is more maintainable after a full rewrite;
- Hildon Desktop uses indirect rendering to take advantage of alpha masks from the themes, has a new plugin system (with optional Python support) and brings an improved task launching and switching experience.
From my “user experience” with this device, I think the keyboard improves a lot the messaging and web browsing experience, the GPS is an excelent addition and the general UI polishing brings a smoother interaction with the device.
Last but not least, this is a device full of hacking possibilities! Yay!
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October 18th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I’m this will be a great device for a lot of people but I just don’t see the improvement over the 800 except for built in GPS. and I can see the keyboard being nice but so was a bluetooth one that let the unit still stand up.
One slot for memory??? No thank you.
All of the UI and OS improvements will be on the 800 too so no net gain.
side facing speakers seems like a bad idea to save a little size.
What’s with the mini-usb port? Still can’t host.
Liked the old pop-out camera better.
Some key buttons only on the keypad now, maybe not as bad as I’m thinking but limits options.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Hi Lucas,
I’m very pleased to see indirect rendering happening in Maemo. Will Maemo take advantage of Clutter and similar hardware accelerated features ?
Cheers !
Étienne
October 19th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
I like the clever way of handling that device. :P
October 19th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
ooops, forget my comment (or better, delete it). It just shows that I must go immediately to sleep. :))
October 20th, 2007 at 2:37 am
No Pidgin installed by default :-(
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Ei, ei! Sou eu ali nos contatos! hahahha
Só agora que vi. :-)
Na boa, to gato nessa foto