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Re: Another N900 opportunity missed by Nokia.

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Originally Posted by nosa101 (Post 682418)

That phone is ugly IMHO
That homescreen thing looks alot like the iPhone especially the dock. I'm sure Steve will have something to say about that

Grid of icons? even PalmOS already had that arrangement 10+ years before the iPhoneOS...

What Steve may have to say about it "You copied that from Palm? Us too..."

Re: Another N900 opportunity missed by Nokia.

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 682430)

Grid of icons? even PalmOS already had that arrangement 10+ years before the iPhoneOS...

What Steve may have to say about it "You copied that from Palm? Us too..."

Look at the dock please.

Re: Another N900 opportunity missed by Nokia.

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Originally Posted by blipnl (Post 682057)

Ads were certainly misleading. When I bought the phone I assumed that it would get free turn-by-turn, because of the ads saying free turn-by-turn navigation for the newest smartphones (by Nokia) or something similar. And since it has OVI maps pre-installed. I was disappointed to see maps 1.0 on the device, with 3.0 coming out for symbian. I saw the N900 as some sort of successor to the N97, because it is an N-series device somewhat comparable to N97 but superior in just about every way. I even tried upgrading my N95 to newer maps but it is just not new enaugh (although its hardware is highly capable of maps 3.X)

Not being a jerk, I absolutely love my phone and would not trade it for the world, but Nokia owes this to us.

Meanwhile I hope a third party like google or mapper developer to come with good turn-by-turn as an alternative, cause its one of the things I miss mostly

We have this: http://wiki.maemo.org/Navigation_Tools

There is also http://sygic.com/maemo
In action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWs4nAJaiM

But it's not free:
Sygic Mobile Maps for Maemo - Europe (online shop version)
Download: 1810 MB 105min @ 300kB/s 59.99 EUR

Sygic Mobile Maps for Maemo - Eastern Europe (Ovi Store version)
39.99 EUR

Re: Another N900 opportunity missed by Nokia.

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Originally Posted by nosa101 (Post 682448)

Look at the dock please.

Oh, I didn't notice that part.

Yes, I can see it has a subtle off-black coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.. with clear lettering just underneath.

Oh my god, it even has a watermark.

Re: Another N900 opportunity missed by Nokia.

The sooner you accept Nokia has shafted us in the anus and stop listening to these "yeah it may not have the billion features these other top devices have BUT ITS A DEVELAPARS FONE" guys the better.