[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] What will be your next Maemo device

[From: Luc Pionchon]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:29 +0100, ext Erik Bågfors wrote:
> My first thinking when it comes to this is to port maemo to an
> existing machine, such as a IPAQ which already runs linux and today
> GPE.

Sounds like a great idea. 

Did anyone out there give it a try already?

> 
> But Maemo is so much nicer than GPE.

Working on both Maemo and GPE, I won't comment this ;)
(besides that each could learn from the other at several levels)


I extended a bit the list with more thoughts, see
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoScalability


Br,
luc

>   The screen is really different
> on the IPAQ and the 770. And changing the orientation between
> landscape or not, is very important on the IPAQ.
> 
> /Erik
> 
> 
> 2005/12/20, Luc Pionchon <luc.pionchon at nokia.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What will be your next Maemo device? I do not know, really.
> >
> > My major concern is, will Maemo be ready for it?
> >
> > Bigger screen? Smaller like S60 phones? Two screens like Communicators?
> > Landscape? Portrait? What's about input methods? A full keyboard? A
> > reduced keyboard like standard phones? Or an improved virtual keyboard?
> > What's about dedicated hardware buttons? And Softkeys? 2 like phones? 4
> > like Communicators? More? Oh! Shall we play more with available
> > technology? Rotate and resize on the fly? Display migration?
> > Applications should reorganize their layout depending of the screen(s)
> > configuration. Can we reasonably use SVG icons?
> >
> > OK, I stop here. You got my point. Whatever is the device of your
> > dreams, we want to be ready to support it by making Maemo as scalable as
> > possible.
> >
> > Let's stretch, shrink, whirl, squeeze Maemo UI!
> >
> > Here is a raw list of technical items related to scalability.
> > Feel free to experiment, comment and extend!
> >
> > http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoScalability
> >
> > Br,
> > luc
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