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Originally Posted by WebNavigator View Post
Hello All,
Instead of opening a new thread I'll take a ride in this one. :-) I've had my N800 for about one month now. To make things "better", it is my first experience with Linux/Maemo as well.

After tinkering around with the OS 2007 I decided to upgrade to OS 2008 since Nokia released the non-beta version. I have the 2.2007.50-2 running right now.

I feel it's more stable than 2007 and seems to be a bit faster. The new Internet browser is noticeably better since the one in OS 2007 would crash almost every 5 minutes.

The negative points, so far, are:
1) the finger keyboard does not work so well as in 2007. It's a pain to get it working and I cannot find the screen sensitivity adjust that was available in the OS 2007. The manual does not mention anything. Was it removed?

2) the new desktop icons are kind of "childish" (rudimentary) if compared with their equivalents in the 2007 version, which looked much nicer. Is there a way (that does not involve rewriting codes or the likes) to change the desktop icons?

3) the new application launcher menu takes a lot of space and I wonder if it would be possible to reduce the height of those rectangles that contain the application names or even eliminate them and have menus similar to the Windows start menu.

4) I liked better the way OS 2007 "locked" the applets in the desktop and it was not possible to accidentally move them around.

I did some searches around but could not find anything addressing the issues/questions (1,2 and 3) above. Thanks in advance for any hints.
1. This is a major complaint for me, as well. As mentioned previously, if you press the center of the d-pad when on a text field, you'll pull up the touch-friendly keyboard. you can also work on giving the screen a good thump on the text field, but it has to be pretty hard, and it's still not accurate. Hopefully they'll address this in the future.

2. Not that I know of.

3. I agree, but I think the overall move was away from the stylus-input and more towards an entirely finger-friendly experience (save for the keyboard, of course).

4. This is funny, because I know before OS2008, alot of us (myself included) complained about the 'applet mode', as it was annoying to have to activate just to move things around. Now, it seems alot of users are frustrated that they don't stay put. This is likely something that will evolve over the next few updates. I think alot of it is personal preference.
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