Thread: The N810 isn't what I figured it'd be...
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2007-12-16 , 03:53
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Originally Posted by rareed0219 View Post
Well, I guess all things being equal, my only real gripe is lack of bluetooth PAN support which prevents me from easily using my Blackjack to get online when there is no wifi. I've seen shell scripts that require root access and lots of hacking. I've seen similar hacks to bring back DUN capability to my Blackjack. Where is the easy access for a n00b like me?
I agree. It's _nice_ that the community has created a PAN capability for Maemo, but it does not in any way let Nokia off the hook for providing PAN capability.

I'm also rather annoyed (even a little offended) that the response I saw on these forums from a Nokia employee was that it couldn't be done because they'd have to completely re-do some set of documents in order to add PAN. That's a completely inappropriate response.

PAN is a huge missing piece of basic bluetooth connectivity for the NIT family. I honestly can't think of a higher priority for them to be working on. And I bet they can't come up with anything that I would agree is a higher priority (and I don't own a PAN based phone, so I'm not biased in my statement).

If what it's going to take is re-doing some roadmap, or requirements document, in order to fix a HUGE oversight on Nokia's part ... then DO IT. Yesterday. And get it into the very next release of Chinook (not the next major release of Maemo, but the immediately next official release of Chinook).