I have a N810 since Wednesday so here is my micro review.
Good:
- The Keyboard, I really love it. I noticed that I use it a lot (for everything possible).
- Hardware buttons. Screen maximize/minimize moved to the left. New screen-lock button. This is really improves usability, excellent!
- Look-and-feel, pretty awesome.
- Speakers, they make NOISE!!1
Bad:
- GPS fix time, almost unusable.
- Mini SD slot. Is there really not enough space to put in a normal-sized SD/MMC slot?
- Micro-USB, WTF?
- The keyboard layout, missing symbols (pipe and tab). See solution below.
In order to make the device hacker compatible one needs to modify the keyboard layout and at least add a PIPE and a TAB key. This can be easily done by editing the X11 keyboard layout. Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility had some small discussion in his blog. For now I made TAB to be Fn-Space and PIPE to be Shift-Minus. This way I don't loose either Euro nor Sterling/Pound.
Some must haves:
Configuration:update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove (this thing sucks!)
gconftool -s -t string /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/DEFAULT/type DUMMY (you need this to play with the network)
Software:Statusbar Load-Applet (CPU and MEM usage)
IpHome Home Applet (show IP address)
Important command line utils: SSH, mtr, bluez-utils, nmap, socat, wireless-tools, dsniff, ...
New stuff I've been thinking about: Location Home-applet, shows current position (maybe with street name lookup). Temperature Home-applet (see internal-temp app). New hardware-keyboard-based version of xkbd-bthid, also I need to support Windows and MacOSX (this will take some time).
Any comments or ideas for applications?
anonymous wrote
> Positive: - The Keyboard Really? Are you an ususal 10-finger typer and in your brain is a 'g' related to your left hand/thumb and an 'h' to your right hand/thumb? I can't understand this because the hardware keyboard is asymmetrical and that hurts a lot for typing! Then, the hardware keys are to flat so it's very possible to type two keys at once. And the pad isn't next to the display. You must slide _everytime_ if you need them even if you don't need the hardware keys. Go to a shop and use for example the keyboard of a Nokia E61 and you know how good a small hardware keyboard could be.
collin wrote
keyboard
I use my thumbs to type. Also I mostly use the device with the keyboard visible. But I only have it since a few days so maybe I'm still on the NEW DEVICE TRIP.
Texrat wrote
I don't understand the complaints about micro usb. What's the problem?
Collin wrote
because I have to buy new cables again...
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