QUOTE(KennyKB @ Jan 10 2012, 08:09 AM)
The 16GB N9 will only give you storage space of 9GB. If you have a lot of music this is not enough. Do consider this.
Between WP7 and MeeGo, WP7 is simple and non-customizable like iphone. It keeps the user at arms length while MeeGo allows you to go into terminal mode and do a lot of things. Developers have less scope in WP7 because they cannot touch the OS while for MeeGo you can customize this and that.
To be fair, the amount of customization of WP7 is fair enough, You can choose what to display on the home screen, the amount of tiles, etc etc. That's the meaningful customization needed. I don't buy the graphic scavenger approach by Android, where the widgets take in all forms and sizes with too much distraction on the real and appreciated information. In essence I agree to WP7 “uniform” approach though the BIG FONT title remained somewhat of an Enigma as it takes too much screen estate and too distracting to the eyes.
But the biggest problem with WP7 is also their uniform Tile approach because they essentially are titles and hence most of the displayed information is only restricted to one small tile, some dev employed 2 tiles so it’s much better. And since each tiles are restricted to their own relevant information, you can only get so much/little information at first glance and it requires you to click on the tiles which bring you into the relevant hub or app to gain more information and interact with it if needed. Therefore, the tile approach is still ultimately very app centric in my humble opinion and not much of a revelation as WP7’s design mantra claimed to be.
MeeGo Harmattan event screen on the other hand, I feel is much better in concept though at its current state feels rather half baked. In essence the home screen is a timeline of events and that is a very powerful approach as it can completely replaced apps like FB, Twitter, Feed and any other event related apps. If Nokia takes the concept further by allowing filters (by source such a FB, twitter and subscribed feed, further sub divide individual filter once activated into say for Twitter, it would be mention, timeline, DM, etc) or even quick interaction with each of the event (such as comment, like, reply, dm, open link posted) directly instead of launching the relevant app only, with all these enhancement, I believe the event screen is much more efficient user experience than any of the widget and live tile concept introduced.