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Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by Cruelkix (Post 313380)

I agree with louder. Front facing doesnt really do much for me. Personally, people are often very surprised at the speaker strength that I get from the n810. I havent used a single Handheld that sounds as loud or as clear.

Louder Louder Louder, as long as it doesnt sound like $h*t.

ok then go to a lunchroom or cafeteria or restaurant and play a youtube video using your n810 and digia@scene (where is the volume control on that btw?) or canola and then play the same video on a Nokia N95 8gb putting the volume all the way up on both.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by fms (Post 313516)

So, is it fatal allergy to cellular connectivity (which you do not have to use btw) or is that Kindle hypnotizing you daily, as you go to bed? :)

I am sort of hypnotized by the fact that my Kindle gives me a free Internet connection that I can use for email and who knows what else, forever, at no extra charge.

To me, money is important, and electronics is supposed to be getting cheaper. I paid $400 for my N800 and that's about as far as I'm willing to go at this time.

I like electronic devices that are (a) cool, and (b) cheap. If I wanted cool and expensive, I suppose I would be in the Apple camp.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by attila77 (Post 313515)

What I find interesting is the call-type selector. If this means you can switch between cellular/SIP/skype/etc with a flick of a button (=use the same interface for ALL contacts regardless of *their* connectivity)

Probably not skype, it was never integrated with the rest of the system in previous versions. Otherwise we've had a contact-centric communications UI for a long time, Fremantle just adds cellular to the available methods.

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that would be really nice (I daresay revolutionary).

and S60 (E-Series mostly) has had SIP/cellular switching for ages.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by vkv.raju (Post 313524)

You might be right. Else, there would be no need to have an alpha-numeric keyboard there ;-)

Or it's because of in some countries phonenumbers are told using words, ie 0800-PIZZA etc. Some people were complaing about alphabeth missing on dial pad in s60v5.

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by zehjotkah (Post 313507)

where are the green and red "answer-call" and "end-call" buttons???
they must be on the right side.. or simply only software buttons???
touch-sensitive-buttons like the n97???

I think Nokia want people to think of Maemo based devices as a 'Mobile Computing Experience' as the CEO put it when talking about the future of Maemo.

Saying that, i still expect to see touch-sensitive-buttons somewhere. :rolleyes:

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 313445)

1. Is that Jaffa's 'Attitude' app? Makes you wonder....

I'm not Eldar. And I haven't seen any more of an RX-51 than anyone else here :-)

However, it does show that renaming the app to start with "A" was a good idea :-)

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by lma (Post 313531)

Eseries is Eseries, but the original built-in contact stuff in Maemo was, well, let's say, IMHO somewhere between disappointing and downright useless. I went the way of gizmo and pidgin real quick. That's why I'm taking this 'just' with a grain of salt.

Skype should be doable if the bastardized mobile version we're getting does not lack the DBUS code (as you can control skype via DBUS on the desktop version).

Re: First N900 Review

Did anyone notice on the "activate views" image in the review, it seems that N900 will have up to 4 desktops :)

Re: First N900 Review

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Originally Posted by geneven (Post 313529)

I am sort of hypnotized by the fact that my Kindle gives me a free Internet connection that I can use for email and who knows what else, forever, at no extra charge.

But, if I understand correctly, Kindle's display isn't well suited for browsing and movie watching and the wireless connection itself is slow?

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To me, money is important, and electronics is supposed to be getting cheaper. I paid $400 for my N800 and that's about as far as I'm willing to go at this time.

I sincerely hope that, for Nokia's own sake, the price for n900 will fall to the magical $400 quickly. otherwise they seem to be facing a problem.

Re: First N900 Review

Thus far I'm very excited, and glad to see a screenshot of the calendar!

They don't want developers to review the device. They want tech enthusiasts to review the device first. Developers are too critical; you don't want their reviews popping up first. So the chance for sponsored devices on the Maemo summit still exists. Personally, I more like some kind of 'coupe' deal because it means a barrier from the receiving party too.

Non-SIMlocked phones will be available at least in Greece, and probably also in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. For Greece I am positive it is also unbranded.

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Originally Posted by dansus (Post 313457)

I wouldnt knock HTC, they make good stuff but has always been let down by WM.

The latest stuff with Android is very good and the sense UI is a good experience, they just need to expand on the Android based hardware.

I can see myself dual booting the N900 with Maemo/ Android at some point. :D

Good yes, but from reviews I read the downside was it being slowwww. The hardware of that new HTC Hero (meant for the masses) is not powerful enough.

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Originally Posted by lma (Post 313531)

Probably not skype, it was never integrated with the rest of the system in previous versions.

Nokia made deal with Skype to bundle Skype in their deices. Not sure if that deal also included Maemo.

This Maemo version will be much better in terms of integration because of stuff like UPnP, iCal and all kind of under the hood. Tons of abstraction layers. For developers (assuming they are willing) this opens a lot of doors to integration like the one outlined above, and given the source is open they can even write patches to the original code (e.g. UI) to submit these to Nokia.

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Originally Posted by sachin007 (Post 313249)

Multi-tasking! :D:D Take that iphone!

I do multi tasking on my iPod touch. Just, the stupid thing has no hardware keyboard so for text input it sucks (YMMV).

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 313353)

I was not happy with volume levels for N800 or N810, especially the latter. I could rarely make out the GPS verbal instructions most of the time over road noise alone. I was informed that the N800 was capable of higher volume but it had been intentionally limited. Never got a good answer as to why though.

I just hope the next device is capable of being louder-- let ME decide if it's too loud and turn the volume down myself.

Like in iPhoneOS a software-based limit you can set. (Strange how then it is OK to have a software-based limitation. ;)).

Although it thoroughly pisses me off to hear some stupid kids playing some strange, loud music while I'm getting...err trying to get rest due to a long travel.

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Originally Posted by wazd (Post 313330)

The only thing I don't like is the statusbar. Kinda huge design fail, icons are too disordered. I'd rather do something like this: http://s55.radikal.ru/i148/0908/bc/d9042aff49d6.png

When are they going to hire you? :)