[tomsem]

Another little issue: if you hold down the page up/down buttons on the scroller, it starts paging (relatively slowly, but probably too fast to identify the thing you might be looking for) but when you lift your finger it keeps scrolling instead of stopping on the current page, until it exhausts whatever touch event queue initiated by press and hold.

The paging rate is not constant, either, so sometimes 2 or 3 pages display in a very short interval. And every so often there’s a screen ‘flash’ (full redraw I guess). Some of the jitteriness seems to be with a background task to generate or retrieve thumbnails (which are now always shown).

It would be nice if they polished this behavior up so it was more useful.

In List view, the PW5 shows about 5 items (as before the update). But tapping a page button usually does not scroll 5 new items into view: one of the previous items is still there (moves from being bottom item to top item or vice versa depending on which way you’re paging. So it is not paging ‘fully’.

The height of each item is not constant: it depends on the height of the thumbnail, which depends on the aspect ratio of the thumbnail; what is more constant is the width of the thumbnail. Typically it is more like 4.95 items displayed, only a sliver of white space is truncated from the last one. That’s when you see repeat on previous or next page. But if you have a squarish thumbnail, that item is shorter, and you might get 5.2 items shown, so there’s no repeat in those cases.

It’s not an issue for 6” screens as there is always a truncated 5th item that needs to scroll into view. But hopefully they can adjust it to eliminate the repeats on 7” screens (when only white space is truncated).