Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

_All_ video (and audio) codecs in a turn would be nice (w32codecsall or similar) to get at once.

Once this is done, a small package for Spotify, and then for Slingbox...

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

A note about point one.... hold the "app switcher" button and you jump back to the desktop when you have app(s) open ;)

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

i completely agree with ur whole article... gj

the one the i want the most if portrait mode texting!

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

Hmm creating playlist is easy and i find it very logical how to do that.
Just add albums songs to the current play list and save that list under a name..

The only thing is there is now way to remove stuff from a playlist you can only add.

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

the weird thing is, if the phone number is not a know number of a contact, there is an sms option!

But as soon as it is mapped to a contact you cant directly say sms

But there is a work around, in the phone app. tab and hold the contact , open contact card, then you have all the options like sms.

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

Oh and while they are at it would be cool that when you tap and hold a song you could "id3-tag" them like you do with photos for artist, album, genre etc. heck do it all through the device... a very eazy way to sort your files :cool:

and ofc ability to seleckt multiple files and tag alot at one time.

P.S I dont think the Phone/tablet (The Device) is too fat it has a very handy size and feels very sturdy :)

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

Thanks for the responses guys and also thanks for having gone through it as it's one awfully long post.

I tried to balance it between having a user experience that's versatile and one that's simple enough for average Joe (AJ) so was extra picky.

Inevitably and sadly, it's him we have to cater for if Nokia's gonna make a success of the Maemo Platform. I.E. not necessarily function over form.

It's the bunch of "We want intuitive UI" crew of writers/reviewers that Nokia must also please because - and they'll also be influencing AJ.

Word of mouth excitement aside, Nokia will also need some seriously aggressive marketing to build up the hype and desirability to get people to realise it's not all about iPhone. Maybe not for the N900 [it's their interim/early adapter solution] but for whatever successor they plan on bringing.

Oh hey, I did not know that. That. It takes a touch bit too long though. But still nice.

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

Overall, agree with pretty much all the points you made. I am surprised though that making it easy to copy stuff from microB was not included in your list. I think that stupid cursor mode is an abomination and totally unintuitive.

Definitely agree on the scroll bar... to scroll any big page/music list without that.

Another nice to have is when you share a photo with a networking site such as facebook, if you take the photo in portrait mode, it should be automatically straightened before uploading. To be fair, I can go on and on about the photo viewer itself. It just lacks too many standard features.

Re: Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
 

#2 Fine, makes sense.

#5 Agreed.

#8 Not Shift and Alt, but Shift, then Alt. Big difference there.

#10 Agreed.

#11 Photos and videos are not ordered by their creation date, but by the order they were indexed in. You'll notice that pictures on the N900 memory appear first followed by pictures on your memory card. Newer images happen to USUALLY show up at the bottom because they were more recently indexed.

#12 goes against how every OS out there orders their files by default. Making it an option, but not the default is the right choice here.

#14 One of the first parts of the Getting Started tutorial shows you that there's a menu there. That little triangle is quite well known as a hint that there is a dropdown menu there. Prerelease firmwares had nothing but the window title there, so there wasn't even a hint that there was a menu.

#19 Okay, makes sense.

#20 Wrong. You can indeed make playlists on the N900. Holding down your finger on any song pops up a menu allowing you to add any song to the playlist. You can also add all currently showing songs to the playlist by choosing Add current to playlist from the application menu.

No, you cannot remove individual songs from the playlist.

#29 Just plain creepy.