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    bandora | # 31 | 2009-11-14, 18:58 | Report

    Originally Posted by kortsi View Post
    Thats excellent! Just what I was thinking.
    Eww.. That's ugly.. I was thinking more like the N97 style of Call and End buttons..

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    lemmyslender | # 32 | 2009-11-14, 21:55 | Report

    Originally Posted by Thor View Post
    Speaking of reading ebooks and pdf files, is there a way too page down without having to swipe or use the keyboard? will the volume buttons in portrait mode do this ?
    Wish I knew. Assuming fbreader makes it to the n900, you should be able to map the volume buttons to forward/back. Don't know if that will still affect the volume though.

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    chrisp7 | # 33 | 2009-11-15, 01:04 | Report

    Perfect form factor...
    (v badly photoshopped)

    Skip tracks quickly, move around using the dpad, and brilliant gaming experience.. Beat that iphone.


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    RWFarley | # 34 | 2009-11-15, 01:55 | Report

    I disagree with Chrisp7, MY perfect form factor would have buttons moved to the "side" a la the camera button, and FILL THE FRONT WITH SCREEN.

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    Devil | # 35 | 2009-11-15, 02:21 | Report

    'how would your perfect smart phone look like'

    more buttons, i say nee

    thought this was a developers forum, not phone designer forum.

    a little less long would be a little shinier for my taste :P

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    chrisp7 | # 36 | 2009-11-15, 11:39 | Report

    Originally Posted by RWFarley View Post
    I disagree with Chrisp7, MY perfect form factor would have buttons moved to the "side" a la the camera button, and FILL THE FRONT WITH SCREEN.
    But there are currently no buttons on the front, and obviously Nokia/apple/HTC cant build a phone where the front is totally covered but a screen..

    'my' proposal surely makings for very good gaming, easy way if skipping tracks whilst on the move etc plus a happy medium of touch/buttons..

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    ragnar | # 37 | 2009-11-15, 11:44 | Report

    I'm pretty sure we will see some manufacturers coming up with virtually full covering displays, rather soon. And many will like this development. But well, the device sides will still be free for keys.

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    hypest | # 38 | 2009-11-15, 12:00 | Report

    I'm still waiting for my N900 to reach expansys and then reach me, but I'm already sure that the decision for a button-less facade was more or less stupid. I have mentioned such shortcomings previously here and here...

    Having said that, I do believe that the next iteration of the device will be better in aspects like front-buttons, but worse in other hardware features (e.g. no qwerty, no IR), that's why I decided to buy it nevertheless (plus the dev platform is so promising to bypass )

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    biatch0 | # 39 | 2009-11-15, 12:26 | Report

    Originally Posted by chrisp7 View Post
    Perfect form factor...
    (v badly photoshopped)

    Skip tracks quickly, move around using the dpad, and brilliant gaming experience.. Beat that iphone.

    I found that the only keys that I really missed going from the N95/N96 to the N97 were the playback control keys. I tend to use the phone to play MP3s in the car and the lack of forward/back/play/pause keys on the N97 continued to annoy me until I sold the phone to make way for the N900.

    Having to press a button to activate the screen, then look around for the forward button was a real pain.

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    attila77 | # 40 | 2009-11-15, 13:56 | Report

    I'm afraid I'm in the 'you went too far' camp As pretty a buttonless front screen is, it really needs to try harder to replace the button functionality. For example, the ctrl-backspace 'trick' on the N900 is pretty bad. It's non-intuitive (how many users will find it?), needs the slider to be open, and without it fullscreen browsing is simply painful.

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