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mece | # 391 | 2009-09-23, 07:41 | Report

Originally Posted by hypest View Post

Or else, I have to navigate to home screen and press a phoneApp shortcut etc?

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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edgar2 | # 392 | 2009-09-23, 08:13 | Report

Originally Posted by mece View Post

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.

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.

pelago | # 393 | 2009-09-23, 08:37 | Report

Originally Posted by Kozzi View Post

- place phone shortcut on every homescreen.

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

fanoush | # 394 | 2009-09-23, 08:48 | Report

Originally Posted by qole View Post

So, have you seen the lead Fremantle device? I mean, other than in pictures and in youtube videos. If not, you really should. See if there's a Nokia store near you that has one, and take it for a test drive...

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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hypest | # 395 | 2009-09-23, 10:00 | Report

Originally Posted by Kozzi View Post

- start typing a name (I read in some threads that n900 will start searching from contacts right away)

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

Originally Posted by mece View Post

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.

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...

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allnameswereout | # 396 | 2009-09-23, 11:45 | Report

Originally Posted by fanoush View Post

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 :-)

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...)

awwaiid | # 397 | 2009-09-23, 12:03 | Report

Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post

Bah, that's an awful tradeoff if so. I want both (it's useful being able to plug my flash drives into my n800).

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.

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attila77 | # 398 | 2009-09-23, 12:26 | Report

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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GeneralAntilles | # 399 | 2009-09-23, 13:09 | Report

Originally Posted by shadowjk View Post

I've seen bluetooth consume almost 150mA on an idle connection on N810, that's about 500mW

Usually reconnecting brings the power use down. Radiated power is pretty insignificant compared to total power used by the radio.. Also noticeable with the wlan, where you basically see no measurable difference in power use between 10 and 100mW settings, not even when sending huge files from N8x0.

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.

zerojay | # 400 | 2009-09-23, 13:34 | Report

(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.

Last edited by zerojay; 2009-09-23 at 13:45.