Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Are you realy a hacker?
Off the top of my head I can think of 3 ways to delete emails and that doesn't include a firmware update. There may be more ways but I have never read the instructions.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Are you sure?
He wrote a blog slagging it of first then invited us to read it.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

It depends on how you use the phone and how long you expect the battery life to last while doing the same tasks compared to another phone. If I do the same tasks on a 5 year old phone and the battery lasts 6 hours but only lasts 2 on the n900 then it would be a huge disappointment to me.

If he/she clearly states things that are not true about the phone then yes, I might consider them a troll.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Calendar invites? Never heard. Sorry.

Hack? WTF? Configure or did he do some real coding?

Maybe for him but not all

Provisioning issue or just some other error. People reporting here that it works with 2003 and 2007 and some people have little issues.

Yesss...now we are speaking. This is enchantment that should in my opinion have been there out of box.

Yes. This is also weird. We have tracker process that is probably able to index also documents, but we do not have Spotlight like utility. Some program popped to extras but yeah it would be nice thing to have out of box.

Long press email?

And so?

Be more detailed just jibberish to me.

Okey this sucks if it really is true. .edit it's not ture?

Exchange works but seems to have on SOME people some issues. And WTF is "standard" its standard or it's not standard.

Please so we can really see is this user error or some bug.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

African guy here. Sorry you take offence to a common internet meme.

I'm sick of these threads with provocative titles by people who could have done their research before buying the device. There are enough of us on here already giving feedback, making feature requests, filing bugs etc. Most of the OP's complaint list is filled will lies.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

I don't like his tactic - that I can admit. But as it stands, the N900 stands on its own merits. The complaints around Modest/e-mail app are notorious around here and within a few posts, the majority of what was considered a problem - inability to delete until read for instance - were shown to be wholly incorrect.

There are a few bugs surrounding the e-mail app, like the inability to copy from an e-mail until you respond to it, but that's been pointed out via Bugzilla and soon fixed.

Read the blog or don't - to be honest, this thread could have been cut off at the pass via showing that some observations are false, the rest addressed in the Maemo bugzilla or Brainstorm areas.

With that said, instead of attacking, show dude how he's wrong. Because... he is wrong in a lot of those things. And the facts are here in this very forum.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Trini-born Black American here... I don't like the word at all in any form. Don't care, that's why I reported it. Will do so again in the future.

I agree. But guess what? Facts are better than just blindly attacking. The facts will educate. Attacking folks, in a public forum will only incite a mob. One that's easily visible by lurkers, potential buyers and other folks as a negative.

Know better? Then teach it. Act better. Want to take the low-road, then continue. I find it ugly as ****.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Kurt,

If you are disappointed, you have no one to blame but yourself. Did Nokia ever call the N900 a "smart phone"? I doubt it. Many people around here were very up front telling every one what to expect and what not to expect from the N900, my self included:

http://www.themaemo.com/and-now-for-...iller-feature/

You make a lot of assertions on your post without qualification. Because of that, they become false assertions. For example, you say: "Battery life is terrible, lasts at most 2-3 hrs". That statement, as is, is blatantly false. There are many people that can get 24 hours or more from their device, my self included. Yes, there are some bugs that can eat up your battery life at the moment. Those are being addressed. I my self reported on one. But still, what you should have said is: " My device's battery life is terrible. It lasts me at most 2-3 hrs." Sure, that would be a less sensationalist statement, which is surely not what you wanted from your post, but it would make it more truthful.

In your conclusion, you fail to recognize that not every one is like you. Not everyone is looking for the same features that you are apparently looking for. By simply telling *everyone* to ignore the N900 you may be misleading some for which the N900 would be the best device currently available. I myself consider it such, for my needs and personal use cases. So, there, I proved you wrong.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Posting I hate the N900 threads here is a bit like walking into a vegetarian restaurant and starting a discussion about all vegetarians being bad hunters.

You may have a very valid point. But most of the people will just consider you an obnoxious idiot.

We on this list know about the faults of the device. As far as software faults go we know them here better then anywhere else.

We chose the device despite those faults due to other advantages or personal preferences.

We post in the hope of helping to get improvements.

This guy is almost as bad as the talk.maemo poster who think certain very famous Linux developer happy with his new nexus one should be answering questions about the N900. It isn't what he wants he dosen't know much about it leave the poor bugger alone.

Re: N900: huge dissapointment
 

Its depressing, most of this information seems to be wrong.........
It seems as if the user may have used the N900 for all of about 5 minutes.

Hacking the phone to get VPN working? Does he know what hacking is? :|