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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by gerbick
Are you sure?
I don't see a troll. I see somebody with a vested interest asking other folks what they see as the positives where they might not currently see it.
The whole "jump on anybody/everything that doesn't wholly praise the N900" **** is getting old quick.
He wrote a blog slagging it of first then invited us to read it.
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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by allmine1976
It depends on how you use the phone and how long you expect the battery life to last while doing the same tasks compared to another phone. If I do the same tasks on a 5 year old phone and the battery lasts 6 hours but only lasts 2 on the n900 then it would be a huge disappointment to me.
Because stating the n900 has only 2 - 3 hours battery life is a lie not to mention some of the other ******** he wrote .
If he/she clearly states things that are not true about the phone then yes, I might consider them a troll.
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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by Kurt Stephens
Calendar invites? Never heard. Sorry.Mail app does not recognize .ics files as calendar invites, lack of this simple feature makes calendaring with the rest of the world impossible.
There is no OpenVPN or VPNC client that works out of the box. I had to hack it to get it to work.
Battery life is terrible, lasts at most 2-3 hrs.
Mail for Exchange does not work as advertised. Can’t get it to work at all. Very vague errors messages.
There is no ability to search email.
No ability to search across all apps; even PalmOS has this back in 1994.
You cannot delete an email without opening it.
The standard Jabber client will not connect, but the hacked-up Pidgin client will.
Too many competing mechanisms/apps/conduits to sync email/contacts/calendar.
Cannot import .ics files or .vcard files, so you are stuck using some other conduit or 3rd party, if you can find something that works.
Does not support any “standard” sync protocols except Exchange, which doesn’t work.
I could go on and on.
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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by gerbick
African guy here. Sorry you take offence to a common internet meme.
Maluka, wtf on that picture man!? That's offensive.
I don't see a troll. I see somebody with a vested interest asking other folks what they see as the positives where they might not currently see it.
The whole "jump on anybody/everything that doesn't wholly praise the N900" **** is getting old quick.
I'm sick of these threads with provocative titles by people who could have done their research before buying the device. There are enough of us on here already giving feedback, making feature requests, filing bugs etc. Most of the OP's complaint list is filled will lies.
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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by JonWW
I don't like his tactic - that I can admit. But as it stands, the N900 stands on its own merits. The complaints around Modest/e-mail app are notorious around here and within a few posts, the majority of what was considered a problem - inability to delete until read for instance - were shown to be wholly incorrect.
Are you sure?
He wrote a blog slagging it of first then invited us to read it.
There are a few bugs surrounding the e-mail app, like the inability to copy from an e-mail until you respond to it, but that's been pointed out via Bugzilla and soon fixed.
Read the blog or don't - to be honest, this thread could have been cut off at the pass via showing that some observations are false, the rest addressed in the Maemo bugzilla or Brainstorm areas.
With that said, instead of attacking, show dude how he's wrong. Because... he is wrong in a lot of those things. And the facts are here in this very forum.
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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by maluka
Trini-born Black American here... I don't like the word at all in any form. Don't care, that's why I reported it. Will do so again in the future.
African guy here. Sorry you take offence to a common internet meme.
I'm sick of these threads with provocative titles by people who could have done their research before buying the device. There are enough of us on here already giving feedback, making feature requests, filing bugs etc. Most of the OP's complaint list is filled will lies.
Know better? Then teach it. Act better. Want to take the low-road, then continue. I find it ugly as ****.
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2010-02-11
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Kurt,
If you are disappointed, you have no one to blame but yourself. Did Nokia ever call the N900 a "smart phone"? I doubt it. Many people around here were very up front telling every one what to expect and what not to expect from the N900, my self included:
http://www.themaemo.com/and-now-for-...iller-feature/
You make a lot of assertions on your post without qualification. Because of that, they become false assertions. For example, you say: "Battery life is terrible, lasts at most 2-3 hrs". That statement, as is, is blatantly false. There are many people that can get 24 hours or more from their device, my self included. Yes, there are some bugs that can eat up your battery life at the moment. Those are being addressed. I my self reported on one. But still, what you should have said is: " My device's battery life is terrible. It lasts me at most 2-3 hrs." Sure, that would be a less sensationalist statement, which is surely not what you wanted from your post, but it would make it more truthful.
In your conclusion, you fail to recognize that not every one is like you. Not everyone is looking for the same features that you are apparently looking for. By simply telling *everyone* to ignore the N900 you may be misleading some for which the N900 would be the best device currently available. I myself consider it such, for my needs and personal use cases. So, there, I proved you wrong.
Last edited by rm42; 2010-02-11 at 21:26.
If you are disappointed, you have no one to blame but yourself. Did Nokia ever call the N900 a "smart phone"? I doubt it. Many people around here were very up front telling every one what to expect and what not to expect from the N900, my self included:
http://www.themaemo.com/and-now-for-...iller-feature/
You make a lot of assertions on your post without qualification. Because of that, they become false assertions. For example, you say: "Battery life is terrible, lasts at most 2-3 hrs". That statement, as is, is blatantly false. There are many people that can get 24 hours or more from their device, my self included. Yes, there are some bugs that can eat up your battery life at the moment. Those are being addressed. I my self reported on one. But still, what you should have said is: " My device's battery life is terrible. It lasts me at most 2-3 hrs." Sure, that would be a less sensationalist statement, which is surely not what you wanted from your post, but it would make it more truthful.
In your conclusion, you fail to recognize that not every one is like you. Not everyone is looking for the same features that you are apparently looking for. By simply telling *everyone* to ignore the N900 you may be misleading some for which the N900 would be the best device currently available. I myself consider it such, for my needs and personal use cases. So, there, I proved you wrong.
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2010-02-11
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Originally Posted by gerbick
Posting I hate the N900 threads here is a bit like walking into a vegetarian restaurant and starting a discussion about all vegetarians being bad hunters.
Maluka, wtf on that picture man!? That's offensive.
I don't see a troll. I see somebody with a vested interest asking other folks what they see as the positives where they might not currently see it.
The whole "jump on anybody/everything that doesn't wholly praise the N900" **** is getting old quick.
You may have a very valid point. But most of the people will just consider you an obnoxious idiot.
We on this list know about the faults of the device. As far as software faults go we know them here better then anywhere else.
We chose the device despite those faults due to other advantages or personal preferences.
We post in the hope of helping to get improvements.
This guy is almost as bad as the talk.maemo poster who think certain very famous Linux developer happy with his new nexus one should be answering questions about the N900. It isn't what he wants he dosen't know much about it leave the poor bugger alone.
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2010-02-11
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Its depressing, most of this information seems to be wrong.........
It seems as if the user may have used the N900 for all of about 5 minutes.
Hacking the phone to get VPN working? Does he know what hacking is? :|
It seems as if the user may have used the N900 for all of about 5 minutes.
Hacking the phone to get VPN working? Does he know what hacking is? :|
Off the top of my head I can think of 3 ways to delete emails and that doesn't include a firmware update. There may be more ways but I have never read the instructions.
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