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choubbi 2009-09-01 13:26

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Khertan (Post 319007)
The french store have it for 599 Euros.

Of course out of stock :)

Now for 649€ in the French store...

deadmalc 2009-09-01 13:34

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
Well it's better than the UK store :-(

http://shop.nokia.co.uk/nokia-uk/sea...x?keyword=n900

Alan_Peery 2009-09-01 17:39

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by daperl (Post 316838)
If you don't know what double-tap is, watch qgil's demo video again. It's quickly shown before the swirling zoom.

When I looked, I saw a double-click-to-focus that focused on the wrong thing. I imagine it must be a trick of the filming, because choosing the right part of the DOM model of the page is reasonably well researched. For instance, the YARIP extension to FireFox understands how to do it...

zerojay 2009-09-01 17:53

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
My one gripe: it's not already in my hands!

danramos 2009-09-01 18:07

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by pelago (Post 319450)
There were lots of different versions by different third-party suppliers. There was no official Nintendo version.

Nice that there was some third party support.. and replacement parts.. and upgrades.. and, man---I weep about the way Nokia has handled the Tablets sometimes.

allnameswereout 2009-09-01 18:14

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
600 EUR in NL. Should have a standard QWERTY keyboard.

(Still CC only)

sjgadsby 2009-09-01 18:42

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 319636)
Nice that there was some third party support.. and replacement parts.. and upgrades.. and, man---I weep about the way Nokia has handled the Tablets sometimes.

Third party accessories appear when a product is big enough to warrant them. Most Nintendo gaming systems have achieved that level of success. Nokia phones regularly achieve that level of success. The tablets saw screen protectors, automotive mounts, and cases, but never grew large enough to spark an explosion of accessories.

You can fault Nokia for not advertising the tablets, though that appears to have been by deliberate design, but it's not as though they actively prevented other companies from producing accessories.

As for NOA's repair service during the era of the original Game Boy, I wasn't overly impressed. When our NES died, we had to drive two hours the nearest authorized repair drop-off point--a kiosk in a mall--and return a few weeks later when the repair was finished. My last name and old address are still scrawled in black marker on the bottom of both controllers and the console itself, as the kiosk employee warned us that Nintendo often lost units otherwise.

pycage 2009-09-01 19:05

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
The Fremantle SDK looks like crap and feels like crap. I wonder how Nokia wants to attract lots of developers with such an ugly, partially inverse-colored, and sluggish SDK.

danramos 2009-09-01 19:54

Re: n900 gripe thread
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by sjgadsby (Post 319668)
Third party accessories appear when a product is big enough to warrant them. Most Nintendo gaming systems have achieved that level of success. Nokia phones regularly achieve that level of success. The tablets saw screen protectors, automotive mounts, and cases, but never grew large enough to spark an explosion of accessories.

You can fault Nokia for not advertising the tablets, though that appears to have been by deliberate design, but it's not as though they actively prevented other companies from producing accessories.

As for NOA's repair service during the era of the original Game Boy, I wasn't overly impressed. When our NES died, we had to drive two hours the nearest authorized repair drop-off point--a kiosk in a mall--and return a few weeks later when the repair was finished. My last name and old address are still scrawled in black marker on the bottom of both controllers and the console itself, as the kiosk employee warned us that Nintendo often lost units otherwise.

Meanwhile, if I want to get my tablet fixed, I have to mail it somewhere else in the world and be without it for well over a month and HOPE that someone will mail it back to me.

I'd rather at LEAST have a kiosk in a mall with a receipt showing that I'd dropped it off in case I never saw it again. :P

tso 2009-09-01 19:59

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or have it returned unfixed because your in the wrong part of the world vs where it was supposed to be sold...


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