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zehjotkah | # 231 | 2009-08-20, 13:17 | Report

Originally Posted by livefreeordie View Post

S60v5 already does that.

S60v3 on my E71, too...

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fms | # 232 | 2009-08-20, 13:37 | Report

Originally Posted by geneven View Post

I know, this isn't a Kindle thread. But it seems so brave and contrarian a direction -- instead of color, black and white! Instead of forcing people to pay heavy monthly charges, give the connection away!

Alas, Kindle's black and white has nothing to do with bravery: it is simply a drawback of the current ebook reader technology. I am sure that if Amazon could put a color display there they would. As to the "free" connection you have, it is fully paid up by yourself and other people buying overpriced DRMed ebooks from Amazon monopoly. There is no free lunch

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I'm no expert, but I don't see that kind of courage in the N900. It combines a bunch of technological trends; I don't see anything original about it. It's just geek++

On the contrary, N900 seems to have lost a lot of the original geek factor historically associated with NITs. It now looks more like a normal Nokia smartphone, similar to 5800 or N97. As I need to replace my current phone anyway, N900 looks like a decent solution.

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anthonybuchanan | # 233 | 2009-08-20, 14:20 | Report

Looks like this device will finally have the GSM phone capabilities I have asked for.
Not sure if I will buy one since I use the OQO Model 02 with the Nokia 6220 however this device is very tempting.

sachin007 | # 234 | 2009-08-20, 14:25 | Report

Typical itard reaction to the n900

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...ets-previewed/

And the read the comments.... i really want nokia to prove them wrong.

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tso | # 235 | 2009-08-20, 14:29 | Report

Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post

Typical itard reaction to the n900

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...ets-previewed/

And the read the comments.... i really want nokia to prove them wrong.

meh, the moment nokia does, they will move the goal posts

sevla | # 236 | 2009-08-20, 14:29 | Report

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post

MMS? If that's it, I'll have to stay out of a lot of forums for quite a while or the Apple-crowd will tear me apart. - I remember what I (and others) wrote about a "phone" that couldn't even do MMS

Well at least with this platform if features are missing we as developers can code them. It wasn't so much a big deal that the phone couldn't do mms (talking about the iphone) but it was moreso that apple would reject any application that implemented that feature.

Won't have that problem with Maemo.

Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post

Typical itard reaction to the n900

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...ets-previewed/

And the read the comments.... i really want nokia to prove them wrong.

Kind of have to agree with them regarding the space bar key. It's really a bonehead move by Nokia and that's coming from someone who loves Nokia phones. There is no advantage (in typing speed) by moving the space bar to that location. If anything it presents a learning curve for using the phone.

I doubt anyone types faster because the keyboard was shoved all the way to the right. It's a feature that doesn't add any benefit to the phone so it really isn't a "feature" at all. Plus people are going to take one look at that keyboard and say they don't like it. That's just the nature of consumers.

One thing I want to write is a virtual keyboard that has NORMAL keyboard layout. Nokia is simply going down the wrong path by having to force users to adapt to a new keyboard. It's a bad idea...

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zerojay | # 237 | 2009-08-20, 14:45 | Report

Originally Posted by sevla View Post

Well at least with this platform if features are missing we as developers can code them. It wasn't so much a big deal that the phone couldn't do mms (talking about the iphone) but it was moreso that apple would reject any application that implemented that feature.

Won't have that problem with Maemo.

Kind of have to agree with them regarding the space bar key. It's really a bonehead move by Nokia and that's coming from someone who loves Nokia phones. There is no advantage (in typing speed) by moving the space bar to that location. If anything it presents a learning curve for using the phone.

I doubt anyone types faster because the keyboard was shoved all the way to the right. It's a feature that doesn't add any benefit to the phone so it really isn't a "feature" at all. Plus people are going to take one look at that keyboard and say they don't like it. That's just the nature of consumers.

One thing I want to write is a virtual keyboard that has NORMAL keyboard layout. Nokia is simply going down the wrong path by having to force users to adapt to a new keyboard. It's a bad idea...

I gotta disagree with you about the space bar. It's finally in a spot where I can reach it completely with one thumb instead of being awkwardly placed where neither of my thumbs could get it easily like on the N810.

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nowave7 | # 238 | 2009-08-20, 14:46 | Report

Originally Posted by fms View Post

On the contrary, N900 seems to have lost a lot of the original geek factor historically associated with NITs. It now looks more like a normal Nokia smartphone, similar to 5800 or N97. As I need to replace my current phone anyway, N900 looks like a decent solution.

And why is this a bad thing?

Cruelkix | # 239 | 2009-08-20, 14:50 | Report

Originally Posted by aironeous View Post

ok then go to a lunchroom or cafeteria or restaurant and play a youtube video using your n810 and digia@scene (where is the volume control on that btw?) or canola and then play the same video on a Nokia N95 8gb putting the volume all the way up on both.

So I'm assuming what you are saying is that the N95 is louder? Thats cool. Hopefully we will get a lounder n900 then. That would be sweet. All I said was I havent used a louder handheld. I'm sure they ar eout there. Thanks for the info!

ysss | # 240 | 2009-08-20, 14:51 | Report

@nowave: i don't see him say it's a bad thing.