Had the phone for nearly a month now and i'm sort of liking it apart from a few niggles.
Anyway my girlfriend has been playing with the phone ever since i got it and her top 3 issues are below and tbh they are pretty fair.
Did I understand you correctly. Your girlfriend has used YOUR phone and She doesn't like some things in it? Excuse me but why it would matter anything to you? I assume that you have bought it and YOU use it.
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1. iPlayer just doesn't work well it stutters constantly on my wifi connection no matter what we try compared to the iPhone which could play it until its battery ran out.
Yes this seems to be problem but does iPhone have specific application for that webpage?
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2. Can't browse and play music at the same time without the music stuttering, at first we thought i got a dud handset but after a quick google search we found it to be a very common problem.
Yes as I said itīs known problem.
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3. Apps are very confusing as to what some do they are named for the tech savvy and don't really help people who aren't.
i used to get stuttering music, first firmware update sorted it out lovely. listening now using bluetooth stereo headphones. while browsing and messaging etc. not a single stutter.
Had the phone for nearly a month now and i'm sort of liking it apart from a few niggles.
Anyway my girlfriend has been playing with the phone ever since i got it and her top 3 issues are below and tbh they are pretty fair.
1. iPlayer just doesn't work well it stutters constantly on my wifi connection no matter what we try compared to the iPhone which could play it until its battery ran out.
2. Can't browse and play music at the same time without the music stuttering, at first we thought i got a dud handset but after a quick google search we found it to be a very common problem.
3. Apps are very confusing as to what some do they are named for the tech savvy and don't really help people who aren't.
What does she like about the phone? almost everything she loves the browser, loves the pullout keyboard and the overall design and she absolutely loves the social networking power of this phone and the multitasking.
However the 3 things above she feels are deal breakers and i have to agree and i'm hoping the next update will at least sort the web browsing\ music stuttering issue.
I get stutter but it's a niceness issue and mostly solved, for me only when opening pages in new window.
Names are not ideal, but there's a repositories with descriptions. Window shopping.
Besides, I like the N900 but it is not a girl phone, it's large. But it has keyboard for messages and games. Ask her if she would like stuttering music now and then or keyboard.
Also, music stutters when doing stuff at the same time. IPhne doesn't have that problem. How could it stutter if there is nothing else to drain resources?
As for online radio and stuff, you have an old firmware or a network latency issue. It flies here, even over 3g
a lot of the app names are stupid. its a self righteous linux thing. "i created it therefore i will name it after an obscure geeky reference to a film or tv show". fair enough though if they did put the effort in to make it.
photoshop = know what that does
gimp = dont want to know!
finding a reverse example will not defeat my unfallible logic.
I haven't posted in this issue lists at all - as there are innumerable posts like that ... but I think some criticisms are entirely valid without raising a strorm of ideological and fanboyish retorts.
The OP points are entirely valid ...
The music stuttering I get too (am on latest firmware) only when I open two or more browser windows - and happens during the opening of the new window - this is at least expected as multiple windows will strain the CPU resources and will content with the existing processes already running (in this case the music player).
About the application names - I have complained about this since the Zaurus days - I think this is a Unix/Linux legacy where developers give names which only developers and geeks in the know understand - and often times the lack of a descriptive test to the app.
There are cases where an app is called
Foo
and the descriptive line says
Foo
Now there you go pondering the "Foo" application whose functional descrition is "Foo".
Thankfully the Maemo Reporsitory and its strict maintenance has at least eliminated or reduced the lack of a clear descriptive line now ... but such is thw world of Linux / Open source apps.
And to sign off on my flow of thught - I have been using Linux driven PDA / Phones since the early Zaurus days - so I know what I am talking aboiut.
