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Originally Posted by paz101 View Post
can you give a few examples of whats lackin in the phone?
You asked for it

I try to sync my Google services (contacts, mail, calendar) via Exchange and it fails.

I can sync the contacts & calendar via Exchange occasionally but that means I then can't sync my work email up. (Maemo 5 at the moment does not support multiple exchange accounts)

Gmail via IMAP is incredibly slow. This is due to a bug that if you have a very large Inbox, it tries to process the whole thing.

I'd like to fire up my twitter app and get @ notifications when they come in, but OH WAIT, there IS NO twitter app that would do such a thing.

I'd like to set different phone profiles based on work location & home, and even when I'm asleep except right now there are 2 Profiles. Vibrate or Normal...That's it.

It would also be nice to set specific ringtones for contacts...but wait, I can't do that either.

I got a text message, I'd love to just whip it out and answer the text message with one hand by using an onscreen keyboard with possibly T9....but I can't.

These are what I would consider some normal use cases. Obviously the N900 is a small computer first and phone second. I would not consider it a true mobile device since it doesn't really cater to the fact that you have to have 2 hands to use the device. You can't just be walking down the street, pause, take out your phone with one hand, and do something with it. Nor can it handle things like email that easily, although every other device out there on the market has overcome most of the issues that come from just opening up an email.

Its not a phone, I get it, but its not really a true mobile device beyond the fact that you can sort of stuff it into your pocket.
 

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