Re: N900 Specifications
 

I'm confused as to how this differs from any other phone? I need to navigate to the home screen on my N95 to make calls too. Incoming calls has a popup where you can click answer, so that is the same too.

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and wouldn't it even be possible to create a home screen shortcut to automatically give contact x a phone call? that would be even one step shorter than today's fastest method: key shortcut [1-9] + phone key.

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Can you actually add the same app shortcut multiple times, I wonder?

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Yes, first ask how long it boots, then ask about x terminal and run 'dmesg >MyDocs/x.txt' and then try web browser with your web mail account and send x.txt to yourself or post it here directly :-)

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this is a nice feature (HTC calls it smart-dialing and is really clever) but it needs the qwerty open and thus needs both your hands to hold and type-in! I do have such experience with my Kaiser (for strangers to HTC Kaiser: it's a qwerty equipped WindowsMobile phone, and quite similar to the n900: see the gsmarena.com comparison http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3...&idPhone1=2024) and let me tell you: qwerty open needs both your hands, or your risking dropping your precious ;)

Agree! The detail is that on your N95 you actually have a tactile button to quickly go to the home screen: the hangup button! This nice button is what I was using on all my Nokias too (and currently on my Kaiser) to quickly and successfully go to the home screen...

what I'm trying to say is that I appreciate the slickness of a button-less facade, so I would be happy with a button to bring up the phoneApp, even if this button is not in the front of the device. This button could be configurable so other people can use it for other purposes (eg. launch the browser!)... anyway, I'll cut the rant here... :)

hypest

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Twitter, Pastebin.ca ... :) (please do indeed! I'd love to test out Nokia N900 but I don't know where a Nokia shop is near me...)

Re: N900 Specifications
 

So all this discussion is interesting because I have an Openmoko Freerunner here that has the AB plug -- I flip a /sys kernel flag and it switches from regular (battery-charging/client) mode to host-mode (where it won't charge).

So odd that Openmoko solved this but Nokia did not. Perhaps OM didn't have to be as standards-compliant or something.

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Yes, please keep in mind that Nokia has to tread more secure ground. Other, lower profile (for the general public, not geeks :) ) did not need to care that much if they have that USB certified sticker or not. For example USB configurations like the Pandora's and even the Beagleboard's are non-certifiable from the get-go (which doesn't make them non-functional, luckily :) )

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The power actually used in radio transmission is a very small percentage of total power usage. As you say, this is why the 10/100mW option for WiFi on N8x0s isn't a powersaving option but a regulatory one.

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(Originally a slightly snarky reply to eiffel about how constructive whining is, but I didn't realize that I was responding to something much further back in the thread and that he had already said basically the same thing himself. My bad.)

The host mode thing may not be simply a matter of Nokia not finding a solution, but that they didn't have the time to implement it... or that hardware was already finalized when a solution was found. It could have been anything really.