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Originally Posted by etuoyo
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Please do not attack me pointlessly as so many of you love to do. This is meant to be constructive. Let me know what issues you think I have missed out so the list can be as comprehensive as possible.
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That's fine, as long as some points are not your subjective opinion :)
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Please do not say I don't have that issue so it does not exist. Everything I will list other than from what others have contributed will be from my own experience and I am not making anything up.
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Why your own perception suppose to be the common opinion? Just let's discus things here. Customer ca read about issues and later personal subjective feelings. Rather other way around.
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Maybe eventually this can be changed to a wiki or something. Hopefully this will prevent others buying a device which is not suitable for them.
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I disagree do a wiki base on one person subjective opinion only :)
As I said, let's discus about each point and find the consensus.
Whatever I will write down under your post it's my experience and opinion only!
Hardware
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(i)The screen scratches more easily than capacitive screens. I have two very large scratches on my screen despite making sure I put absolutely nothing in the same pocket as the N900. Be sure you use a screen protector because no matter how careful you are the screen may get scratched.
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I agree with you but I don't like the screen protector because cause issue you pointed out later.
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(ii) There is a serious manufacturing defect with the micro-usb socket of many of the N900s. For some it has fallen out completely. For me the device no longer charges from a charger. It has to be charged from PC via USB cable. Nokia have been made aware of the problem and hopefully have fixed it in the latest builds but there is no guarantee this is so and there is no guarantee that even if they have you will not end up with an older batch so be aware of this risk.
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I believe it's true.
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(iii) Only three row keyboard layout so you need to use alternate for the numbers keys.
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true, but compare to what... screen keyboard or devices that have 4 rows. Is not cool for me only when I have to press 1 because buttons fn and 1 are close to each other and is not handy when you keeping your device on the way. However if designers/developers here doing some pass with numeric field in mind usually number mode is as default.
I didn't expect this same experience as on PC keyboard, I know some devices are better but hardware keyboard is good enough for me and refer to size of the buttons and how they functioning it's just perfect.
Battery
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If you do not have IM accounts turned on then the battery should easily last you through the day. However, with some IM accounts (not sure which are the culprits but yahoo and msn seem to be amongst) you should generally expect around 6 hours use on average. Not really an issue specific to the N900 though - Engagdet's review of the HTC Desire says they had 6 hours with similar use.
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I am using 4 at the moment. With all additional handy apps helping me keep aye on power consumption. When I am not using my N900 to much, just reciveing emails every 5 minutes, some messages via conversation bluetooth turned off etc etc. 2 days, yes 48h.
Pretty much sleep mode but I keep my emails and conversation running.
If I can add internet browsing quickly check some address, receiving calls, 4-5 per day 10min each, 24h.
Using N900 extensively non stop 6h.
However I was surprised yesterday with leaked 1.2. last time I had appointment, so, get to the tube listening to the music, gps overground to find location, some internet browsing to find some client related websites. My battery with from 80% goes dead after 3h journey, Yes GPS with current OVI map was harm. Yesterday similar journey this time with improved OVi map. from 90% to 80% within 1 hour, pretty much the same activity.
Interface/Operating System
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(i) Some devices randomly restart.
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Yes I have read about this
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(ii) The transition between the four desktops is far from smooth.
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Screen protector? or ridiculous amount of widgets and shortcuts on the screen? Or both.
For me no issues. Each screen represent some section for me, Phone/Conversation, Daily use apps, Entertainment, Contact Shortcuts/ Bookmarks. Smooth and pretty. (Stock 600Mhz) I had screen protector for 3 days. I removed it quicker than guys showing it on demo movies ;). It will completely destroy your enjoyment of the touch screen.
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(iii) You cannot jump to the particular desktop you want like you can with HTC's Sense interface. You can scroll forward or backwards so can go from 1 to 2 or 1 to 4. But you cannot go straight from 1 to 3. You must scroll through 2 to get to 3.
(iv) Scrolling through a long list is terribly jerky. For example if you are scrolling through the thumbnails of your photos.
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See above. To addition to that, Because I am enjoying smooth screen I am also enjoying the fact I need to go from 1 to 4 :)
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(v) If you have a lot of media going to a folder with many sub-folders or files will cause the device to slow down to the point of the file manager being unusable.
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no experienced
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(vi) The device can sometimes be slow and unresponsive. If you are a Linux expert or are lucky you will never have any slow down or apps freezing up. However, it is generally not as snappy as an iphone for the general user where you tap an icon and it opens up immediately.
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I am not linux expert, simple logic saying me don't tap like crazy everywhere. Sometimes it's getting stuck, that's true. Are you clicking like crazy when your home machine will get stuck? I know many ppl do like that.
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(vii) The screen does not refresh automatically for some reason. If the screen goes off (battery saver) when you wake it up it will show for a couple of seconds exactly what it was showing before it went to sleep. So if the time was 14.50 then and is now 16.30 it will initially show 14.50. Or if you are listening to music it will show the song details of the song that was playing before the screen went off.
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no experienced
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(viii) It takes longer than it should to switch from portrait mode to landscape and vice versa.
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hmm, guys you really need to tweak transitions a bit :) or let people remove it.
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(ix) There is no full portrait mode on the device so makes one handed operation rather difficult or virtually impossible. There is only portrait mode on phone app, web browser and some third party apps.
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true, regarding to the fact N900 was intended to be internet tablet line continuation.
Maps/Navigation
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The Ovi Maps version on the N900 is outdated and misses voice turn by turn navigation. Note that most symbian devices have a full navigation software with turn by turn and voice whether walking or by car and this is free on these devices. On the N900 you have to pay for a third party programme.
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Yes old Ovi maps is horrible, leaked 1.2 MUCH more better.
Ovi Store
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This does not work properly with the N900. I may be wrong but at present it is not even working at all. Also if you are using your PC you cannot easily load apps from Ovi Store to your N900 the way you can with itunes and iphone. If you choose to install an app on your PC all that happens is you get a link sent to your phone by sms and then you have to follow the link which takes you to the Ovi Store.
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true, but personally i don't miss Ovi store since I've got all i need in App manager.
Media Player
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(i) Videos stutter a lot for the first few seconds of play back.
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no experienced
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(ii) The N900 has a serious problem with displaying proper tags for music files. For some it works fine for some it doesn't. For me it shows album artist and never song artist and album artist is almost pointless for me as many of my songs are from compilations and so just shows Various Artist rather than e.g. R. Kelly. Third party apps such as Media Box do not have this problem but may have their own issues.
(iii) Some album art do not show even though embedded.
(iv) Tracker which updates media file info is very often defective. You can add media files and they not show up in the media player for a week. You can reset tracker or kill it, etc using terminal but be warned it is very often not like what you are used to where you transfer files via usb and your files show up immediately.
(v) Creating playlists is not as intuitive as it should be. You need to add songs to now playing list then create playlist from the now playing list.
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(vi) No proper functioning software to sync with your PC the way itunes syncs perfectly with iphone. You can use drag and drop but that is only helpful for the first sync of all your music and when you add new songs to your PC and are sure exactly what the news songs are and can just drag and drop them. There is Ovi Music but it does not work with the N900. Third party PC software programmes can sync but many of them just sync to the main documents folder or the main music folder rather than in an organised manner (via artist, album artist, etc) and so create a huge mess and will kill your use of file manager. You may get something to work properly but will be quite an effort compared to using itunes and iphone.
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true, I understand it can be issue for drag and drop lovers.
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(vii) Currently no equaliser though I don't see much point in an equaliser but just be aware there is none in the media player.
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No worries new PR will make you happy here
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(viii) The play button on the media player widget does not work for some.
(ix) No way to stretch to full screen in the default media player (though mplayer a third party app will do so).
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No worries new PR will make you happy here
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Email
(i) There is no easy way to search your emails.
(ii) Nokia Messaging sometimes has delay in pushing emails to the device. Delay can be 15 minutes, can be a couple of hours. If you have a job where you need to be contacted immediately by email better to use a blackberry.
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Settings, interval, everything works for me, I am using 2 accounts And actually I am thinking to slow it down because bubbles became nightmare and annoying thing.
Phone
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(i) The phone cannot say the name of the caller.
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Can with app
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(ii) You cannot have custom ringtones for each caller.
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haven't play around
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(iii) You cannot have caller groups.
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haven't play around
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(iv) The call log is pretty poor. It just lists all types of calls (incoming, outgoing, missed) in one long list.
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For me it;s cool, one view, icon saying what happened, label beside who.
Would be nice to have additional options to filter this, But as general list I like it. You have full view for history.
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(v) For some it randomly goes to speaker mode whilst you are on the phone.
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if your ear is faster (touch the screen) than detector, possibly.
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(vi) For some the call volume drops on and off.
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no experienced
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(vii) Only general and silent profiles (although there is an app that seeks to get around that).
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true
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(viii) No way to set the phone to divert all calls to voicemail. You need to download a third party app to achieve this.
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really?
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(ix) Cannot dial numbers starting with * or # without the use of a third party widget so without the third party widget you are unable to top up your credit or check your balance in certain countries.
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With 1.2 you will
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(x) No MMS unless you get a third party app.
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true
These phone issues are issues which are not present on symbian so if they are big issues for you consider one of the high end symbian phones as an alternative.
Special Issues
This section contains issues which may not be very wide spread but I have put them down because they are present on my device. Some can suggest other issues they have which no one else seems to have.
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(i) If playing video I cannot receive calls.
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There is app to improve this. Would be nice to have it native.
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(ii) Sometimes the phone rings with a blank screen for a few seconds so no way to answer the phone. I know a few others have had this issue but not sure how wide spread it is.
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Happening to me sometimes, but I learned that don't try to press green button and turn portrait mode in this same time.
Make sure your phone is in good position and then press it.
But I agree it could be definitely improved.
I know you asked ppl here do not point out this, I have right to speak what I feel about my phone etc. Every one have I think. And you see how different opinion and experience can be. And I don't think that any body here opinion should be THE ONE. But general view that all of us agree it's wrong. Also intentionally I was talking about 1.2 because will show you Nokia didn't let us die with this state. They keep improving things. And I am glad to see this even on leaked PR. In my opinion it should be one general topic for this, I agree that was good idea and I am going to thank you for this. But should be done by moderator and base on many ppl opinions get the most repeatable/common issues rather than subjective opinions.
Once Again, whatever I said here it's ONLY my PERSONAL opinion same as Author of this thread.