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	allnameswereout	2009-03-20 , 21:31
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Originally Posted by yerga

For you, for me the experience is the contrary. Slow music player (10 minutes to add a song to the library), slow gallery (30 seconds to open it everytime), stutter recording video, the gps take 10 minutes to get a fix, and so on. Really I am not happy with my Symbian/S60 expensive phone.

Each product has their own positive and negative aspects. These are also personal, and everyone uses the device different. There are many things I like about my S60 phone, and there will be many things I like about RX-51 and Maemo 5.0. But for example, my Nokia phone with S60 does have a functioning internal GPS in contrast to Nokia N810. Certainly not 10 minutes to get a fix! I would have tossed it then lol

. I also have choice between a lot of navigation software. On the other hand, the screen is rather small for navigation, and it is not touchscreen either.

I've compared my 3 gadgets lately, mostly hardware wise:

* iPod touch has no true BlueTooth, GPS. Does have WiFi framework for GPS (Skyhook Wireless). No hardware keyboard. No good multi-tasking. Accelerometer. Has hardware accel. video. Smooth interface. Has only WiFi. No DVB-H. No SD. No replacable battery. No mic or line-in. Easy, rich App framework for touchscreen. No LED. Many 3rd party hacks and hardware available. Geen trilfunctie. No camera.
* Nokia N810 has touchscreen. Does not have good GPS. Has hardware keyboard. Has no accelerometer or hardware accel. video. Has BlueTooth and WiFi. No DVB-H. miniSD/microSD (SD with mod). Replacable battery. So-so App framework. Colour LED. Difficult to find compatible hardware. Geen trilfunctie. One front camera.
* Nokia E71 has no touchscreen. Has GPS. Has hardware keyboard. Has little storage (microSD). Has no accelerometer. Has no hardware video. Has 3G, BlueTooth, WiF,. FM. No DVB-H. Replacable battery. No easy App framework. Trilfunctie. LED. One front camera, one back camera (mediocre quality).

If you take all this into account and think about RX-51 and Maemo 5.0 then I'd say it certainly will have a competitive feature set. My problem lies rather with the inconsistencies and reliability in the software. Unfixed bugs, and inefficient behaviour. I hope these will be resolved, but they won't be resolved if the platform is not commercially viable. And in order to fix that a wider community, with also less technically-inclined people, is necessary.

BTW, what you (ciroip) propose is commercially just not viable...

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