Re: N900 Issues and Possible Annoyances: For Potential Buyers
 

Another big issue is lack of provisioning. I can't get my work email on N900. iPhone is advertised both as media and enterprise device. I switched to 3gs and can't wait for the new iPhone OS 4 with multiple exchange accounts

Re: N900 Issues and Possible Annoyances: For Potential Buyers
 

It also beats me why this device does not support google maps. Ovi maps is the most counter-intuitive software I used

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Yes. Done.

No. Posts are ordered by date, no exceptions. I've asked, and even Reggie has no means to do the equivalent of stickying within a thread. So, were I to merge all those other, past threads into this one, their posts would bury the thread starter here down to post number 3,824.

I remember one blogger who reported the N900 had a ridiculously easy to scratch screen, and I remember numerous pre-production N900-toting posters here responding with reports to the contrary.

The screen of my own N900 does have a few scratches. I believe they're from one of the rivets on the watch pocket of my jeans.

Early on in the life of the N800, GeneralAntilles posted here to report finding Nokia had used two different screen types for that Internet Tablet, and my own experience bears that out.

• My bought-just-after-launch N800 had a soft, squishy screen that scratched easily. Far more easily than any Palm device I ever used. The scroll bar and handwriting recognition areas of my N800 were thoroughly scratched by its own stylus within about a month and a half of purchase.
• The N800 screen I scavenged from a broken N800 later on is much harder, like the screen of my N810. It's more resistant to scratches and at the same time requires less pressure during use.

So, scratch resistance comparisons between the N800 and N900 may not be completely straight forward.

Re: N900 Issues: For Potential Buyers
 

For those of you who are wondering why the N900 belonging to 9000 (post #43) functions better than all ours N900 (e.g. can have custom ringtone for each caller), there is a simple explanation:
A person named 9000 is a new N900 user from Hong Kong. As it was reported, all new N900 currently in shops in Hong Kong have a new PR1.2 version software. His N900 obviously is one of them so some of the issues listed in this thread don't appear there.

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I was wondering....which function I mentioned in #43 is better than yours?

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@9000: What is better? For instance:
"Cannot dial numbers starting with * or #" (The widget resolves only part of the issues.)
"The device can sometimes be slow and unresponsive."
"The phone cannot say the name of the caller."
"You cannot have custom ringtones for each caller."

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Does anyone have problem when the phone hangs for few mins and touch doesnt have any responce...i get the sound looping continuiously.....!
I also use screen and phone lock!

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To answer your question:

I confirm it works.

As far as I've been reading from the discussions here, the N900 with the leaked PR1.2 firmware installed can use the code as well. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It's mainly due to the architectural design of ARM. As you may know, ARM changes its freq according to load, and that behavior might affect the user experience on a multi-tasking OS (thus my answer in #43).

You might get a better user experience by changing its default scaling governor:

The above would cause the CPU runs at max. freq. regardless of load. To revert to default, you can type:

I've the caller display working here. I'm not sure if this function is firmware specific (couldn't find related discussion on this atm), and I'd like to know if the leaked firmware PR1.2 has this function too.

I wrote a script for the purpose. Thus my answer in #43. Of course, if the questioner excludes solutions from 'third-party' (which apparently he does), then his point would hold.


I'm also anxious to know the different between the leaked PR1.2 firmware with the firmware on Hong Kong stock verion of N900. Because at time of speaking, I still cannot get hold of the Hong Kong version PR1.2 firmware, so in case I bricked my phone for some reason, I'd have to send back to Nokia for maintenance, or tried the leaked PR 1.2

Hope this help. ^^

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@9000- can you confirm that your version of the phone enables an option where the phone speaks out the name of the person calling you without needing an app?

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Sure. Hope this help.