Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
Hi,
Am Freitag 11 Juni 2010 schrieb Marijn Kruisselbrink:
You might also want to look at the marblewidget (http://edu.kde.org/marble/).
I did. On the n900 as well as on the linux desktop. While i really think this
is great for desktops i also think that it isn't the right thing for mobile
devices. There are several issues:
- It is big and installs ~10MB data
- It is pretty complex and doesn't really fit on the small screen
- It takes several seconds to load
- It runs pretty slow
<snip>
I have read that poeple are working on the speed issue. But speed alone isn't
And speedups may be very possible - if for example you can offload
portions of the workload onto a GPU.
But, for the forseeable future, 3D will not always be available on the
mobile platform.
Especially as I wouldn't expect the future of featurephones to be a
simple race to 2GHz/GPU/...
Yes, that'll be happening - but in parallel will be soon coming out (I
predict - regrettably I have no inside info) n900-lite devices based on
whatever can be gotten that week in china.
It's also not impossible that as capacities of cheap phones rise - take
a look at http://noknok.tv/2010/01/04/nokia-5230-officially-shipping/ -
for example - and even phones at the very bottom of the market are
starting to include 'web browsers' - capabilities of the processors and
GPU will not be up to n900 levels for some years.
The ability for such a widget to be 'cross platform' - and run on small
devices would be a valuable one.
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