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Originally Posted by iJanne View Post
* Silly, and unforeseen problem, the camera protrudes from the casing enough to make the phone tilt and wobble a little when placed on a desk because (unlike N97, the battery cover is not angled to compensate). One could solve this with a bit of rubber under the right side of the phone - or, like I do, by placing it over the aforementioned Nokia sock (which stabilises it physically) when using the phone placed on a desk. Or just use it by picking it up, like I'm sure most do.
I just goofed around with mine a bit, and the most wobble seems to come when the keyboard is closed, pressing on the lower left corner (where the LED is). I wasn't able to get any wobble at all from the right side. But it is significant on that lower left corner, and it extends more than halfway down the lower part of the screen. Interesting; I didn't even notice it before, probably because I'm always working with the device in my hands, or with the keyboard open.

although charging while talking on the phone will still look crazy (the port is on the top).
Yeah. I agree. It is really weird looking.

* The touchscreen clearly works best when used with the stylus, I can not find any fault with it when using it this way... but when using with finger to drag things around felt a bit N97-like clumsy (the first setup of time and date seemed unnecessarily tricky and I couldn't get thumb-turn zooming to work in browser?). I will probably use fingers for simple point and click and take out the stylus when doing something more intense, the stylus works way better for many things than the finger even on capacitative competitors.
It just requires a little practice; you need to find the right pressure and angle to do it with your fingertip. I've gotten very good doing these things with my finger, so I don't the stylus at all when working with the built-in apps

From the looks of it, the Facebook applications that comes with the phone seems to be just a desktop widget, not a full-blown interface like on the N97.
I've ditched the Facebook widget too, and I just check Facebook from the browser. It works fine from there.

I'm starting to wonder if they need to keep a resisitive screen option available always because of the stylus...
Sadly, they've announced they're moving to a capacitive screen in the Maemo 6 devices. To me, that's another step in the wrong direction, but I'm not the target audience.
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