Originally Posted by ivanzorkic

What is interesting to me is the fact that only the iPhone users never complain about their devices - and with all the features these Apple products are missing - I can't understand it. Either Steve is a master mind-controller, or they perfectly nailed the demographic of their customers.

The Android forums have quite a few users complaining about stuff - I have to say that it isn't as dramatic as TMO, but the things they complain about are equally funny. My favorite is the lack of gorilla glass on the Desire/Nexus One. Now, as you know, gorilla glass is a great, resistant glass tech but its not as if the 'normal' glass is fragile. I had my Desire fall on concrete face down (from quite a hight) and survive without a single scratch on screen. Still, the Android whiners - when they found out about gorilla glass (thanks Engaget and Dell Streak!) started claiming their "ordinary" capacitive screens are so weak that they can crack even under the slightest force. Conclusion? "Cheapskates at HTC! Why, oh why you didn't put gorilla glass on your two flagship devices". Also, I read things about HTC widgets being unpolished - now, if they are not polished, I don't know what is. They are far better than stock ones and they have lots of options and eye-candy. What widgets are better? Well, I guess they haven't seen Maemo's twitter widget Still, people complain and think the grass is greener on the other side.

The truth is, we can always find - and very often - IMAGINE something better than what we have.

Realistically - all the devices are great and offer amazing functionality. Even their weakest points are not that bad. Take the N900 and gmail. Now, nothing can beat gmail on an Android. Period. And you have to wait 10 seconds or more to read the email on your N900 while the Android devices have it pushed instantly it arrives and it opens up in a matter of moments. Android is clearly the winner here - but think about it - set your N900 to check for mail every 5 minutes and you're getting mail updates all day long. So you wait a bit longer - but it still beats checking it every 5 minutes on your PC! It still works - and works well!

But what about things where the N900 is better, even when compared to the high-end Android devices? Sharper screen with no pinkish hues of an AMOLEAD? Stereo speakers that actually make movies watchable without headsets? (try the Nexus' monospeaker - you can barely hear it most of the time and the quality is quite low) An easier keyboard? (and I'm not talking just the hardware one, the resistive onscreen kboard is also more precise - than the ultrasensitive capacitive one). Then there's the camera, the dual flash, the built-in storage. N900 is quite up there when it comes to high-end devices.

And don't think the Android guys don't complain and whine because they lack the things Maemo users have. Things such as Xvid support.

In other words - people complain everywhere

Originally Posted by TomJ

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I'm going to feel like I'm shooting a puppy for posting this, but your handset doesn't have enough power to send a recognisable signal to outer space. You were receiving a number of signals from medium earth orbit, which your handset correlated to calculate your position. It then downloaded the relevant maps for said position from the 'net. All of which is still amazing enough to justify:

Originally Posted by Kingsley

I never understand why so many people think mobilel phone signals go to space.. do they not know what all those towers are for?

I'm pretty sure you could pick up the signal with a big enough aerial, after all we can still pick up voyager, wich iirc we recive the same flux as a mobile on the moon..