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Originally Posted by tuxsavvy View Post
I don't know how many times do I have to say this, N900 is _not_ a phone. You don't call a computer with a phone handle attached to the side of it and would actually ring when someone is calling you a phone would you?

Many people misunderstood the point of N900 being an internet tablet with phone functionality as being a smartphone. When N900 is marketed as a smartphone people go all crazy and naive without studying its history. Then they expect N900 to function as a smartphone with very high expectations but to only realise their own stupidity that N900 lacks loads of fundamental features that are normally found on a smartphone.

Its ludicruous really, people let marketing get in their way of thinking, then they assume too much in which they get shot down like a moth trying to get to darkside of a light bulb only to find itself being burnt.

I agree with many posts on this thread, you simply have too many things installed which broke your setup. As for assuming that N900 would `just work' like many other android, iOS, etc devices, that is just showing your blatant ignorance. Have you ever seen a rooted android or jailbroken iOS running beta applications where things would actually break to make you pissed off? Have you ever seen where cyanogen mods for android on certain unsupported devices just bricks android? How about installing iphonelinux and realising that you have lots of broken setups here and there? These are all the normal things to expect with any smartphone when you go messing with things that you shouldn't have been messing with. The case gets a little more worse when a person's incompetency of acknowledging N900's shortfalls is married with installing things that were known to have an effect on the device such as power-kernel, such as programs from extras-testing or extras-devel, such as overclocking, etc. Yet ironically people just don't realise it until its too late.

On a final note, N900 is a geek's toy. The history of Nokia Nxxx devices has never been marketed for widespread usage, it was only intended for a very niche market and the same could be said about N900 except for the fact that Nokia got too desperate for the wrong reasons.
absolutely right..and very well said..I have been an n900 user for past 1.5 years and have faced situations where it does not do the basic of things right..like the phone app not coming up during a call..and so on... thats bound to happen with all the messing up i did with it for so long...all the beta apps and tweaks..

and just to understand my n900 better I reflashed it and kept it unmodded for a month and boy what a well behaved phone it was..i installed no apps from testing and devl and did no tweaks whatsoever..

..camera used to fire up instantaneously..no lags during incoming call..15 days of uptime and no lags...

the truth is when used as a normal phone it very well behaves as a normal phone..its only when you do all the messing up does it act up..

But for all it gives me..i am really happy to load it up and live with it... its the best device i have had in my pocket for a long time by a long shot
 

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