Hi Torfinn Really appreciate your feedback. My comments are inline:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > After a few days with the WikiReader, here are my first impressions: > The obvious things: > - good size: this device is small enough to drag along (ok, it won't fit in > my trouser pockets), but has a big enough screen to read on comfortably > - use in places: I knew about the "missing" backlight. I can read the > WikiReader while commuting (most tram's have good lighting), but on the other > hand it is difficult in a "cosy" cafe, because the lighting is not s good > there. > - scrolling: this works great, even better than I thought. One friend asked: > how do I get to the next page, but was happy with scrolling after I told him > to use that instead. Are you running the latest kernel? (The way to tell is if you have kinetic scrolling, yes == latest kernel) http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wikireader/wikireader/kernel-2009-10-30.zip Scrolling is really really good there. > - history: it's there when I turn on the device - and I like that. > - the search button removes the on screen keyboard so I can scroll on the > search screen. Yes! I like that. That's another fun "random" like way of searching. > The questions: > - search screen: where is the "delete word and start over" button? (this was > the first question I got from two friends trying the device) You can hold down the backspace key. It will delete the word extremely fast. We're working on a few minor UI changes for the next release. Clear will be more obvious. > - why isn't there a back button? Sure, I can use the history button and > select from the list (and that works quite well), but a back button would > save one keypress We didn't want to add another button. We might use left to right swipes in a later release. Not sure yet... > Annoyances: > - it is impossible (for me at least) to take out the microSD card without > using a tool (pliers or something). Why do I want to take it out? To actually > show people the small size of a Wikipedia database. :-) Push it in and it will pop out (beware it will *really* pop sometimes) > - the buttons on the on screen keyboard is a bit small for my fingers (it is > easy to press the character left or right of the one I want). I don't know > how to solve this yet. Software. If you've used an iPhone, the keypad is 70% of WikiReader's size. And typing is a lot better. So just bear with us. We're working on this big time. > - sometimes, the history screen is unresponsible, I have to press the other > two buttons a couple of times before I can select anything on the history > screen Working on this, too... > small annoyances: > - the moment it takes to display an article (after selecting it, either from > the search screen or from a link) is just long enough that the device feels a > bit slow sometimes. Same as my last comment :) > Some things I haven't figured out yet: > - how do I get another Wikipedia (for example the Norwegian one) onto a > MicroSD card? > - how do I convert an e-book and put it onto a microSD card for the device? Like David said, we encourage you to check out github.com/wikireader for now. > All in all - I really like this device. Great. We love to hear this! -Sean _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
