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Originally Posted by lefteyecc View Post
True true but when using the device as a smartphone I would say I must agree with him...in terms of usability.

One other thing I agree with is the portrait mode...however int he end I still KNOW that he doesn't have the final release software or the final release hardware. But it is still interesting to know all of this or the device we are all obsessing over, not that that's a bad thing obsession is good.
lol remember it's a mobile computer to Nokia and a phone second.

There are plenty of other smartphones that have a stylus I don't think this is any different other than that you got such a dynamic environment to use. So excited! It definitely is a difficult task to satisfy everyone which is why I think this is where the stylus is a helpful aid and quick solution (because it's been done before) without delving to far into it. Now... they could offer an option to resize icons... or they can spend some time thinking about less precise ways of manipulating icon positions for the degree of imprecision that MIGHT be there because I don't think a lot of people will want to spend time thinking about which part of their finger touches the screen first to trigger a click/touch.

Take the iPhone/iPod Touch for instance. Pretty hard to be precise sometimes. Worse yet, no stylus for the times you want to be really precise. So they spent a lot of brain cycles thinking of an intuitive way to move icons on their screen by having no (x) to mistakenly press.


Originally Posted by SubCore View Post

"Fortunately, Nokia N900 provides a possibility to lock the handset after certain amount of time. And it works pretty well.
Except for one thing. When you want to check what’s happening on N900 after it’s locked, all you get is the screen with a keypad to enter the unlock code."

so he wants his device to be securely locked when it gets stolen, and then complains he can't look at the time quickly? somehow this strikes me as odd...

the reviewer doesn't make it clear whether there are 2 "locked" states - keylock and device lock. in the former you can quickly look at the time the same way you'd do it with any other phone, the latter isn't supposed to be a quick way.
though i don't have a device yet... can anyone confirm that there are 2 distinct types of device-locking?


also, that site has WAY too many ads on it. i mean, 3x google ads right next to each other before the article even starts? come on...
lol he likes to stir up some subjective and controversial points so that he can get more views so that he can get more ad views so that he can earn a revenue on the plethora of ads he has on the site.

Let's just ignore this article and move on. lol jk...

Last edited by ciaomatteo; 2009-10-15 at 15:29.