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Big-time Rant of the N800
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Zuber
2008-01-07 , 09:35
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I've come from a WM backfround as well (As well as Palm and Psion and Symbian). But I am in IT and so a geek I guess...
I find the device to be very easy to use and love the interface. For all the bits that work as they should, it leaves WM dead in the water IMHO. It's only when things don't go to plan that it is not "consumer friendly". This is a little more often than it should be.
I'm guessing that I just happen to be not using a couple of the buggier bits and so my experiance is smoother than some.
But then, isn't the difference that on other devices, you just have to live with it and report it rather than be allowed to try and fix and play? Perhaps that increases the frustration when it doesn't work after the extra effort.
To me, it is much nicer than Windows Mobile. And to be honest, my particular device HTC Universal, was also buggy as hell.
Would not actually wake up and ring until the guy on the other side had already been ringing for about 8 seconds.
By the time you got to the phone to answered, they had hung up.
There were fixes and work arounds etc. But is that not the complaint on the N810...
Also, I actually like the "standard" app install. It's very easy (when the repositries are not playing up).
No copying files across., running setup on another PC, finding the website to download from etc.
Just go to App Manager, select the app and install. What more do you want ?
Actually, better app discriptions and more apps would be nice. But I'm hopeing this will improve (at least the more apps bit) now that most of the top 500 contributors are getting the discount codes.
I do agree though, there is room for improvement.
Portrait support - Yes please.
A full PIM with Outlook sync. including category sync. And tight integration with the mobile, so I don't even have to touch the handset.
Particularly with the Nokia handsets. How about a virtual screen of the S60 interface ?
Actually, that would fix the Outlook and PIM issues
Anyone tried to VNC with an S60 phone over bluetooth ?
How about more controll over when the WiFi will come on (e.g. no auto on between 11pm and 6am) to save battery life.
Perhaps the apps could sync. when they do updates somehow, so they don't keep powering up the WiFi at different times ? e.g. The Weather widget and the RSS Reader ?
I',m wondering if the WiFi spends much time off, if the 2 are significantly out of sync. anyone know how this is handled ?
Use some kind og A-GPS to improve signal lock times (N810).
Proper Java - just tried web based vnc yesterday and no go. I assume it's a java thing. Everything else in the web browser works just great (sometimes slow for really big stuff, but still work).
Finally (not really, but will do for now), I got a cool bluetooth headset that lets me switch between devices just by clicking a couple of buttons. But the N810 (the master device) won't let go when it's supposed to...
I'm still not sure what the correct place(s) are to complain/report about these different issues...
By the way, I really love thiis device
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