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fms	2009-05-28 , 19:22
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout

If you lie down on your left or right side and have your head on the pillow you look to the device normal while the accelerometer thinks you're looking in a 90 degrees angle. It doesn't know its owner is lying in this position. Its an exception really, and justifies the ability to put off the accelerometer like you can put off a GPS or BlueTooth.

(scratching head now) What pillow? Did I mention any damn pillows? All I said was that automatic screen rotation does not even work well in similar Nokia devices.

Because being able to change your mode from landscape to portrait allows you to use your screen better in some circumstances.

And how does it put more text onto the screen without making it smaller (and thus less readable)?

Save extra $400? Then don't buy any mobile device... it just doesn't make sense to compare a $200 entry level touchscreen phone to a $600 flagship product.

Oh, really?

As far as I am concerned, the only difference between "entry level" (5800) and "flagship" (N97) is the keyboard (and the fact that sturdier 5800 will last longer). The rest is marketing garbage few people care about, no matter what marketing gurus say. And, speaking of touchscreen phones, how does N900 fit here? The way I see it, N900 is an N97 with Linux. Is Linux going to be its selling advantage? If you worked in marketing, would you dare to build your marketing campaign on top of this "advantage"?

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