Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Frantisek Dufka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to point out that the buttons are located where they are based on the results of testing with real people, right and left handed. There are so many different ways the people hold and use the device, this is something you have to see to believe. I'm all for

RE: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Jakub.Pavelek
I'd like to point out that the buttons are located where they are based on the results of testing with real people, right and left handed. There are so many different ways the people hold and use the device, this is something you have to see to believe. I'm all for moving the buttons to

[maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Zoran Kolic
So either there should be buttons on both sides or the device should allow rotation upside down so you can choose which side you prefer. Looks like the solution chosen instead was to give up and ignore the problem completely :-) Or prehaps that we do not have a problem but a variety

[maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or prehaps that we do not have a problem but a variety of personal preferences that lead us to the usual can't suit them all situation ;) --jakub I'd like to meet the real people who gave feedback on the N800 - not only have they given away the vital hard-case, but

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:51 +, Neil MacLeod wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or prehaps that we do not have a problem but a variety of personal preferences that lead us to the usual can't suit them all situation ;) --jakub I'd like to meet the real people who gave feedback on the

[maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Neil MacLeod
Bastien Nocera wrote: Do you see any console joypads from Sony or Microsoft with the arrows on the left, and main buttons on the right? No, and I bet they're real fun to play for lefties. :) Does that mean it's right, er, correct though? I do remember the old Atari Lynx worked for both left

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Klapperich
On 2/13/07, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you see any console joypads from Sony or Microsoft with the arrows on the left, and main buttons on the right? You're a righty, aren't you? :-D That's an entirely different thing. I'm not expected to hold a stylus and write/point with

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Bastien Nocera napsal(a): On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:43 -0600, Paul Klapperich wrote: On 2/13/07, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you see any console joypads from Sony or Microsoft with the arrows on the left, and main buttons on the right? You're a

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 01:46:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to point out that the buttons are located where they are based on the results of testing with real people, right and left handed. There are so many different ways the people hold and use the device, this is something

[maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Neil MacLeod
Ted Zlatanov wrote: The N800 successor should have a scroll wheel on the side. It would make 90% of my daily stylus use (while browsing the web and reading RSS feeds) unnecessary. Unlike the D pad, scrolling should be purely a mouse button 4/5 operation, not move to the next link OR the next

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:08:51 + Neil MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NM Positioning the wheel on the top left or top right shoulders of NM the device would work for me (as I'm right handed) but this would NM not work at all for a left-handed person who has to rotate the NM screen 180 degrees

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Ted, I too like the idea of a keyboard. I have a UTStarcom 6700 and the keyboard is of the slide out variety which works very well. Here is the url to a www page at the UTStarcom www site that shows an image of the unit with the keyboard slid out:

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Jonathan Greene
On 2/12/07, Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (someone on the #maemo channel mentioned the E90 has the same processor and memory as the N800... hmmm...) The E90 will also run about $1000 without carrier subsidy when it's released in Q3... yikes. Those hinges and double-screen (not too

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Klein
As a lefty I must say this initially was a bit of a peeve But in reality you don't need precision to point a stylus and/or tap keystrokesso I've switched rather than FIGHT. Works well enough...although switching hands takes some getting used to. mike (flashing back to green scissors in

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Jae Stutzman
I'm also a lefty...but enjoy every opportunity to use my right hand as well. It makes us smarter! All suing will do is make Nokia delay the launch of the N990 in the US, and that will make both righties and lefties unhappy! Jae ___ maemo-users mailing

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Jae Stutzman wrote: I'm also a lefty...but enjoy every opportunity to use my right hand as well. It makes us smarter! Yes, that's the positive attitude. But it is hard to keep that attitude when trying to type on virtual keyboard with stylus in right hand :-) All suing will do is make

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Erik Hovland
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:12:50PM -0800, Mike Klein wrote: As a lefty I must say this initially was a bit of a peeve But in reality you don't need precision to point a stylus and/or tap keystrokesso I've switched rather than FIGHT. Works well enough...although switching hands

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Lococo
Or let them figure out that buttons on both sides (with key customization in control panel) are useful for all. And that will make both righties and lefties very happy! Continued expansion of the form factor makes me very unhappy. I wish they'd have left the stereo speakers off the N800 and

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Frantisek Dufka
James Sparenberg wrote: The one thing I find interesting is that lefties have so much trouble. I find the buttons on the left unusable as I have to put the 'pointer' in my mouth grab with right hand, partially release the left hand grip to move thumb to buttons. But then again I may just be

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Henri Bergius
On 2/12/07, Mike Lococo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continued expansion of the form factor makes me very unhappy. I wish they'd have left the stereo speakers off the N800 and tightened up the form factor, and redundant buttons would make me very sad. I might be the only one, but I'm actually