You are not. Even talking with a hands free is detrimental to people's driving, but at least you have both hands at the wheel.

Oh, ok. But with all the Nokia is "promoting dangerous one hand use by enabling portrait mode"-stuff in that other thread i thought you were serious.

Not hands free. You steer with your elbows and the camera of an N900 is used to display the road behind a semitransparent text you're composing.

RevdKathy, from what i have done using my device, the way it works is (at least for any installed applications, not had a firmware alert yet -
in the "indicator area" (the bit at the top of the screen with the clock etc) you see a little yellow/orange box with an exclamation mark.

You tap the clock, that pops-up a dialog-box, that shows what has an update.

you then choose to do the update, and it is then virtually the same as installing an app i.e. you check the box, click ok and watch a couple of progress bars, then see the message "1 application installed succesfully".

Don't fret, it was funny.
You can't always allow for folk without a sarcasm radar.

Um, one post by me about pending law suits and a possible tombstone mentality that arises and it was turned into Nokia promoting something.

My actual belief is that the more functions you provide some people the more they will use them at inappropriate times. Not just people texting while driving, there will be people looking up stock symbols, betting odds, recipe ingredients, song lyrics... you freakin' name it.

Now I said some people and not all people. Some people will use common sense.
However, more and more people these days seem to be clueless to the unintended consequences of their actions. That is all.


On a side, side note: I remember when I was a kid hearing the story about how some dude who was killed in a motor vehicle accident while riding his motorcycle to work one morning... There was milk and bits of cereal found on what was left of him and his bike. A few hundred feet back down the road they found a bowl and a spoon that matched the dishware at his house. Go figure.

So it's not a problem of having mobile features, but a problem of stupid people.

Like I said, reading a folded newspaper has the same hazardous effects as having a smartphone with a lot of features.

Should we stop using scissors because you can run around with them. What are we, a society of glue-eaters?

The frightening thing is people do things like this. I have heard of people steering with their legs so they have both hands free. They would be seriously screwed (and anyone nearby likely) if they had to make an emergency stop.

The point I was trying to set up then, and can hopefully make now is:

With Maemo we are given a device that with a little knowledge, a little skill, and maybe a little help from the community we can make do whatever we want (within the capabilities of the hardware and the limitations of some drivers). We have seen it with the 770, N800, & N810 before. Anybody new to the forum need only look at the "Downloads" section and see that with the Diablo release there are at least 482 different things that the device didn't do out of the box but the community made happen anyway.

I'm sure someone can hold a baby in their arms, cut hair, drive a car, clean teeth, or eat a dang cheese samich with one hand while texting their vote for "Dancing with the Stars", programming the space shuttle, or ordering Kung Pow chicken on their N900 with the other. Some are pro'ly better at doing all those things simultaneously than I am doing just one thing. Who am I to judge?

I don’t have a problem with glue eaters or even those who want to rub pot roast all over their chest... I just feel a lot better if they had a little knowledge, a little skill, and maybe a little help from the community first.