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Tue, 2009-10-27 00:33 andreit: Look and feel, web-part and location settings
andreit

When we open Here and Now at the top of the screen we can see a very big application icon and title. It is really a waste of space. Why not to make Here and Now look like a full-screen browser or Image Exchange application without top bar.
Any application which display a lot of information should use 100% of screen space. Besides, glossy black theme is nice, but when part of the screen depends on chosen system theme and the other is always black and glossy it is not right. Application should be in one style, without theme-dependent parts, as title here.

The other suggestion is about displaying additional information about weather ets in browser. When I open Here and Now it establishes internet connection, gets data from server and brakes connection. So, if I want to get more info, I click middle button and get internet connection dialog once again. All in all I have two gprs-sessions which costs me double price. The idea is not to brake first session.

And the last one is about location setting. It will be nice if I can change/add my location in settings. Auto detection is a good idea, but sometimes I need to get weather or other information about other place, to which I'am traveling for example. Will I need warm clothes when I leave the plane and where can I have a dinner after landing? Here and Now can answer me those questions if I can add destination as my location. Application becomes Here, There and Now, Then:) but I think lots of people will find getting information about different locations very useful. Besides, users can manually set their location if auto detection fails and shows incorrect location.

I'm using Here and Now on my N95, latest firmeware (31.0.017)

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Sat, 2009-10-31 00:47 redreku: Thanks for the ideas
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redreku

About the screen usage: We have tried to maximize the useful area, but there are certain elements like the title bar that we cannot get rid of with the current concept. However, we do have some design ideas that we are experimenting with at the moment... let's see if something comes out of that.

About the data connection: The reason for the current behaviour is the fact that we have two separate applications in play: Here and now + Browser. However, this sounds like a real issue in some networks, so I'll talk to the developers and see if something could be done here.

About the location setting: This is something that I personally wanted to have from the beginning. Now with this latest update it is finally here. The location name on the Weather now page is a clickable element that brings up the location search. Please try it out and let me know what you think. Maybe we should make it look more like a button for easier discovery or add an icon etc?

Thanks,

Pekka

Pekka Rissanen
Product Manager, Here and now

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