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2009-09-23
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it was also mentioned on the www.my-symbian.com site that while it currently does not give the voice-guided nav. there voice files are there in the system. so it looks to be able to on a different firmware.
with all the videos showing, you can tell there are different versions of the pre-released firmware on them.
Michal from my-symbian stated that there are firmware updates that show up weekly in the folder, but he has not sent in his unit to get the update yet.
my guess is that HOPEFULLY by the final release it will be included. however, it will not be the end-all if it is not. firmware releases are very much so available today then they ever have been.
with all the videos showing, you can tell there are different versions of the pre-released firmware on them.
Michal from my-symbian stated that there are firmware updates that show up weekly in the folder, but he has not sent in his unit to get the update yet.
my guess is that HOPEFULLY by the final release it will be included. however, it will not be the end-all if it is not. firmware releases are very much so available today then they ever have been.
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2009-09-23
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If Maemo Mapper and Flite (voice synthesis program) will run on the N900, like they do on the earlier NITs, then there will be turn-by-turn voice navigation, and for free at that. (Maemo Mapper and Flite each have their limitations, like no detour re-routing, which you can read about elsewhere.)
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2009-09-23
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Originally Posted by BatPenguin
There's nothing stopping you from sending beer pics. You just have to use one of the many other options other than MMS to do so.
As certain as video Skype calls coming for N810 or perhaps slightly less certain?
Well, I think they might come eventually, but seriously, nobody should buy the device thinking that it will later support something they need that it doesn't at launch / time of purchase. It's pretty clear this device is not the "end point" of Maemo phones for Nokia, so it would not shock me if some of these missing features will only come to later Maemo phones.
Ranting a bit, sorry, but here I go: it amazes me that they are launching a new type of "flagship" product that's so advanced in many ways, yet doesn't even match all the standard features of the previous high-end phones. Not that the features are so important, really, but not matching/exceeding previous features is strange.
Especially MMS is such a basic feature anyway that it'll be very hard for many people to understand why any other plastic 150 € Nokia phone can take a pic of your beer and send it to your friend in the other bar and this one can't. Let's face it, that's the only use-scenario for those messages, isn't it?Still, many people like those messages, they should be in.
So let's not explain away its shortcomings by "it'll get it later". These things should be available at launch and there's no guarantees that they will come to this phone at all. Hear that Nokia? I want my beer pics.
Skype video calls were never promised or announced. Talk to Skype about that.
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2009-09-24
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Originally Posted by zerojay
Sending such pictures is of course no problem. However, the point is that your mate in another pub (or at work
There's nothing stopping you from sending beer pics. You just have to use one of the many other options other than MMS to do so.
) would likely not be able to receive them.MMS, although not as popular as SMS, is nearly as ubiquitous (at least in the UK).
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2009-09-24
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Originally Posted by zerojay
Yes. But the beer pics MUST be sent and received by MMS. It is stated in the definition of beer pics that me and my pals have.
There's nothing stopping you from sending beer pics. You just have to use one of the many other options other than MMS to do so.
The rest of the world may ofcourse disagree on that.
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2009-09-24
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2009-11-14
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well I just read on twitter that the N900 has third party software in the works for Voice guided turn by turn navigation.
http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/news/it...avigation_.php
http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/news/it...avigation_.php
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Really I am so amazed that Vodafone and Nokia who operate across the world have missed a trick with Wayfinder and the N900. Specially in the UK.
1. Vodafone acquired Wayfinder
2. they have exclusive license in some markets for N900
so why not port it over... the revenue stream for very little development should be attractive enough.
Last edited by ozen78; 2010-02-23 at 22:14.
1. Vodafone acquired Wayfinder
2. they have exclusive license in some markets for N900
so why not port it over... the revenue stream for very little development should be attractive enough.
Last edited by ozen78; 2010-02-23 at 22:14.
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Well, I think they might come eventually, but seriously, nobody should buy the device thinking that it will later support something they need that it doesn't at launch / time of purchase. It's pretty clear this device is not the "end point" of Maemo phones for Nokia, so it would not shock me if some of these missing features will only come to later Maemo phones.
Ranting a bit, sorry, but here I go: it amazes me that they are launching a new type of "flagship" product that's so advanced in many ways, yet doesn't even match all the standard features of the previous high-end phones. Not that the features are so important, really, but not matching/exceeding previous features is strange.
Especially MMS is such a basic feature anyway that it'll be very hard for many people to understand why any other plastic 150 € Nokia phone can take a pic of your beer and send it to your friend in the other bar and this one can't. Let's face it, that's the only use-scenario for those messages, isn't it?
So let's not explain away its shortcomings by "it'll get it later". These things should be available at launch and there's no guarantees that they will come to this phone at all. Hear that Nokia? I want my beer pics.