New Firmware due, long press for symbols on keys

[biggzy]

just found this info ... http://dailymobile.se/2010/01/01/nokia-n900-firmware-update-brings-long-press-symbolsnumbers/ not sure how true t is but i remember the n97 was the same and after the firmware update the qwerty was easyer to use as we didnt have to keep using the sym key.

[biggzy]

ah just found the story here ... http://thenokiablog.com/2009/12/31/nokia-n900-symbols-numbers-long-press/

[TA-t3]

Long press? Wouldn't that interfere negatively with key auto-repeat?

[unkno]

Long press? Wouldn't that interfere negatively with key auto-repeat?

The only key I need for auto-repeat is backspace/delete. Thankfully, it doesn't have any symbols for long press.

[Milhouse]

Wow... must be a slow news day if they're blogging about bug entries! :)

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5421 for anyone that is interested.

[whc]

Would be nice to get the long press back for Maemo, very nice feature instead of using the function key all the time.

[Laughing Man]

Could always have it as a setting.

Long press for repeat vs. symbols/numbers

[Matan]

Not if it is implemented in a non-free component of maemo.