[maemo-users] Google services

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:16 +0100, Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 20:20 +0100, ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 2010/1/7 Kevin T. Neely <ktneely at astroturfgarden.com>:
> > > This might be naive, but since the N900 runs a fully capable mozilla browser
> > > (i.e. fennec) why does it need a suite of Google applications?
> > >
> > > Now, if it had the enhanced Google Maps app with voice navigation, that
> > > would be something.
> > 
> > onestly... we talk a lot about usability and do you want to compare
> > accessing Gmail from MicroB or accessing it from a native client?
> > Have you tried using Google Maps from N900 browser?! It's more usable
> > from Google Maps for Nokia N73 than from N900 browser....
> 
> Yeah, the panning is used to pan the Web page, so there is no way to pan
> these Web applications. I guess one could hack the browser UI to have a
> special mode for that.

Actually there is already, the "Hover Mode":
http://maemo.nokia.com/features/maemo-browser/gestures/

With that, you can pan in Google Maps also.

-Kimmo

> 
> -Kimmo
> 
> > 
> > No micro-browser is enough for Google applications, neither N900 one
> > nor iPhone nor Android one.... there's need for a native application
> > to access certain services.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
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