Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

I didn't know any GSM phone that didn't use this extension. the first, for me, is the N900.

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

Well.. I do understand your complaint.. and surprisingly - this was one I hadn't come across before... so before recommending a bug report/feature request or brainstorm.. I decided to search..

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39048

Would that fall under the same category? If it does.. then all of the above are already done..

If not.. then I suggest searching around and if nothing has been made for this mystifying "SIM menu".. perhaps you could make one and see what comes.

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

A lot of phones use melodic ringtones too but it is absolutely nothing to do with the GSM standard. It has as much to do with GSM as the colour of the case.

Whilst I understand your frustration please realise that the technology you are talking about is different.

If the previous mention about WAP is relevant too the N900 has never been given as supporting WAP by Nokia as far as I can assertain. Lack of WAP is related to the lack of MMS.

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

thanks for the hints but I had already voted for those and I am following all those threads since I've come across this problem. But they seem to be stuck, as far as the brainstorming is concerned. To make things worse, there was another "solution" there, which stated that Nokia should provide it by default, but was removed and nobody knows why.

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

The answer won't please you, but its being addressed by Nokia with Maemo 6 and the ofono stack.

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

Oh.. well in that case I am seriously wondering what you hoped to accomplish with this thread?

What's the intent here?

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

Okay on a serious note let me give you a usercase to show how bad the phone element can be. In Nigeria there are no free call or text contract packages. You just buy top up, load it on your phone and you are good to go. You dial * then your pin number and then # at the end.

Well I went there for three weeks. I bought credit scratched the card typed in what I need to load the credit and find out that the N900 can't load the credit. So what do I have to do for those three weeks:

I have to switch off my phone and take out my battery, then remove my sim card. I then have to ask someone else to do the same on their phone. I then put my sim card into their phone, replace the battery and then switch on the phone. Then I top up. Then I switch off the phone, take out the battery, take out the sim card and hand over the phone to the kind fellow that let me use his phone. I then put my sim card back in my N900, replace my sim and put on the phone.

Thanks Nokia.

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

The hope for an insightful soul who had not seen the other threads to shad a light on the problem or ...

for someone working for Nokia to go to the boss and say "hey, i think we should reconsider that strategy of ignoring those guys"... ;)

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

Ah... so a random thread in the forum will attract more attention than the official bug tracker that obviously has already received attention from Nokia...

uh..... Good luck with that?

Re: Why does Nokia keep selling the N900 as a phone?
 

wht few guys needed was a cell phone. not a modern day MID. they accidently bought this device without doing any research.

i only seen n900 as a mobile device with an additional feature to make n recieve calls..thats a phone function, u should have checkd wht n700 and n800 was before jumping straight to n900..