Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Joking aside, the Pandora development process has been remarkable in its openness and the way community input has been incorporated "en route". It's exactly the opposite of how Nokia treats the Itablet user community.

We know that 100 selected developers have received the "Mk 0" development edition of the Pandora; we know that there is a problem with the USB chip that needs to be addressed by the manufacturer (and sharing that information with the community scathed pretty close to a breach of NDA); we already know that the Pandora -- contrary to earlier announcements -- will have bluetooth onboard; we have seen the circuit boards; we have seen the prototype cases; we have seen a developer board boot.
Yes, it's really impressive; and it's not at all like Nokia's process; the reason? Not to dismiss their interest in making a better console vs. making a killing, but partly because the Pandora team knows their product will "suck" and be denounced as such; they have a niche market and are aiming for it, so they don't have to worry about competition...

How much of all this did Nokia share with its community? There is a thread on this board about the ergonomics of the D-pad, almost identical to threads that were started not long after the 770 came out; how much of the input in those threads made it to the N800?
Well, as mentioned before, too much openness about plans is a potential problem when you're worried about competition; but accepting input is always good, AFAICS.

You have to realize that Nokia isn't in the least bit interested in community input for the Itablet line; they're only interested in a community that will alleviate the work they would have to do themselves otherwise.
No, I don't have to realize that; they're interested in sales, and they know that sales depends on people liking the product, and that one way to make a product that people will like is to listen to what they have to say about the last product.

If not, why that survey on tableteer?

They're interested, and more than the least bit. You could argue that it's one of the lesser bits, still, and I'd like to see that change, but they didn't pay for a survey just to throw out the results completely.

(PS: See the N810, with a nice shiny keyboard? That's from listening to the community; many people wanted a keyboard (although I'm still not persuaded it's a great idea, and especially reject that implementation), so they put a keyboard in one model.)
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