It’s strange how sometimes people are very aware of the battery consumption of some applications but put all concerns aside when it comes to applications that use the internal accelerometer. Is it because they are all nice or because the application does not really give the impression of running in the background all the time? [...]

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Nokia and Opera are supposed to be two companies that put the customer experience at the heart of their business. Then why o why they don’t try to have the same shortcuts? For example, I’m sure that the majority of people by now know the use of Ctrl+c. Why we don’t have the same when [...]

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Reading this reminder on S60 Web Browser Shortcut Keys from the thenokiablog.com I recalled that my N95 browser actually supports tabbed browsing but I never used it because of the difficulty in opening a new tab and the out of memory problem which makes the browser unusable even when using just 1 window . Anyway, [...]

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Actually, the original title was “Usability not counteless features is good for Nokia phones” but then my train of thoughts focused on the N-Series (as well as S60 usability) in the end… Reading this great summary from Russel and the following comments in this link, I recalled a previous post regarding the complex structure of [...]

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