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Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo DiasporaBergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo DiasporaPosted Jul 9, 2012 20:14 UTC (Mon) by tuna (guest, #44480)In reply to: Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora by mjg59 Parent article: Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora
Do you know know many screen resolutions does WP7 support? The answer is 1. WP8 will support 3 screen resolutions. Nokia will not be able to buy any other screen than what is explicitly supported by MS.
The same thing with cameras. Why do you think Nokia put their best camera ever on a Symbian phone? Well, MS' drivers do not support that camera and the WP7 probably can't handle images of that size.
Nokia is screwed, not because MS is setting the SW development but because they have to buy the HW that MS support. And that is not a nice place to be if you are a HW manufacturer.
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Endogamic hardware Posted Jul 10, 2012 0:10 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Funny. And of course one processor manufacturer (Qualcomm), which locks Nokia up with exactly one supplier. Nice!
Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora Posted Jul 10, 2012 1:29 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
> Do you know know many screen resolutions does WP7 support? The answer is 1. WP8 will support 3 screen resolutions. Nokia will not be able to buy any other screen than what is explicitly supported by MS.
Not much change there then, as ITOS on the 770/N800/N810, Maemo 5 on the N900 and MeeGo-Harmattan on the N9, only supported one resolution each.
Bergius: The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora Posted Jul 10, 2012 8:56 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] It's one thing having an internally developed platform that only supports one resolution; you can in principle fix that yourself, and on any given platform the only resolution you need to support is the native resolution of your discrete-element display. It's quite another having your one-true-resolution imposed by your upstream OS vendor (especially if you don't fabricate your own displays - I'm not sure whether Nokia do or not).
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