On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:41 +0000, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 2:37 PM, Tuomas Kuosmanen <tuomas.kuosmanen at nokia.com> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > [...] (remember the N810 has the keyboard so you hold it a bit > > differently in your hands!) > > > [snip] > > > > Because a lot of stuff works differently with the physical keyboard. And > > because I have no clue if the input method works differently on the N800 > > with N810 OS release shoehorned into it? :-) > > I recognise the smiley, but twice in one post you've mentioned UI > decisions on OS2008 were primarily determined (or at least justified > here) by the presence of the slideout physical keyboard on the N810. > Yes, it's the shiny new device but isn't the N800 an equal partner in > the Maemo landscape? Developers are part of the testing crowd (which at the beginning is focused especially on HW bugs, since they have the longest lead time and must be fixed asap) and in cases like this, we tend to work mostly on the newest hw, simply because we need as many people as possible to use it. In some cases, even if n810 seems to have the same features of n800, the actual component might have changed sourcing or technology and needs to be verified (usually the first hw revision of a new device comes with several hw components in beta or alpha stage). n810 has also a more refined mechanics and that too required testing and stressing that can be provided only by having a large amount of people using it. (No, unfortunately we cannot accept externals for a tester program ;-) The fact that something might be biased toward the new device is not really intentional, just the byproduct of having a limited amount of people and time. That's part of the reason why the sw release for n800 was scheduled to be available later: no n800 user must perceive the sw update as a step back in terms of quality and performance. Furthermore, having the new devices ready in shops on a certain day means that way before we must have had a sw image deemed good enough for being flashed during production. Once that is achieved, we can focus on purely sw issues. Deploying units in stores has a significantly slower process than uploading the new sw image to the maemo servers. You also have to consider that this is the 1st time we release and support 1 sw for 2 products (the 770 HE came after the release of n800) so the process is far from being mature. This lenghty email is not meant to be a justification, it's just to clarify some of the issues that have to be solved. But stay assured that nobody is neglecting the quality of the n800 experience and, as a matter of fact, we did perform the same amount of official tests (meaning run by System Testing) on both devices. -- Cheers, Igor Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com> (Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland)
