Thread: Nokia n900 horrible!
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kanishou is offline kanishou
2009-12-03 , 17:22
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Originally Posted by pspbricker View Post
@kanishou

Yup - we'll agree to disagree. Yes I am definitely saying that Nokia should not have released the N900 as is. There are serious bugs out there - random calls, microphone problems (apparently due to the Nokia charger supplying 5.3V!), bluetooth problems, contacts dissapearing, devices rebooting randomly and so on. Of course bugs will be around, but I feel Nokia rushed this one out again. These bugs have been reported within days of being released. Don't tell me Nokia's testers didn't spot them, and pushed ahead with the launch.
It's the first time I hear of these issues, so I think you overestimate how wide-spread they actually are. The random call thingy sounds very obscure and may well have nothing to do with the phone at all. The bluetooth problems the OP is talking about are not bugs, he simply doesn't like the behaviour of all sound being routed over the bluetooth headsets as long as they are connected. While I agree that this may not be best behaviour, it's still not a bug and even less so a release blocker. I can promise you that, if broken microphones or constant reboots would have been spotted during testing (and not deemed fixed), the device wouldn't have been released.

There was nothing rushed about the N900, it was now or never. Personally, even as a consumer I would rather have the device available rather than not have it available, which would have been the only alternative.


I am not a developer, nor is my knowledge with Linux vast. However when you say completely new development, my understanding is that the N900 is a continuation of the N700/N800/N810, and that Maemo has been around for years now.
That's like saying that OS X was not a new operating system because it was based on *BSD though. The user experience is entirely new, the desktop and window management are completely new (for the first time using hardware 3D acceleration and transitions), the phone and communication framework is completely new, the calendar has been written from scratch, the hildon toolkit has been extensively updated (most noticeably the pannable area and touch selectors), and so on.

I have never seen anything of this complexity being released without a couple of bugs.


The reason that Nokia need the N900 to redeem itself is because of the shakyness of the N97. Confidence in Nokia's products has been dented, and we look to the N900 to restore that confidence. As you say, the N97 was marketed as the flagship device, but faced criticism over the OS, processor, available RAM, UI, stability and hardware (camera lens cover) - when a device was announced that improved all these issues, it makes sense to see it as being a superior device - and it is. It's early days yet, but I still think that some of the bugs could have been tracked down before launch.
No, it doesn't make sense. Yes it is a superior device, but otherwise it has nothing whatsoever to do with the N97. And looking at the most experimental device in Nokia's line-up is just not reasonable, if what you care about is primarily stability.


To be honest I don't have an N900 yet, but will still get one regardless. I'm prepared for all of the above bugs, because they all sound fixable via updates (apart from the possible charger fault).
I got that impression, because I think that your perspective is severely skewed by reading too much in the forum. You are still far more likely to get a device that works fine for you, than one that has any critical defect.

Keep in mind that if two in a hundred have an issue with a product, it is most likely that it is exactly those two who seek out a forum to complain about it. Never take this as an indication as to how many products are actually affected.
 

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