Thread: My N900 Review (over the course of a few days)
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2009-12-11 , 16:26
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Originally Posted by smage View Post
Ok your experience is similar to mine except how the hell are you getting that much battery time.

I really think that besides the wireless battery drainage bug which I have experienced, sub-optimal network signals also take a huge toll on the battery life. I have also installed quite a bit of applications which may also affect.

I just hope in the next firmware there could be some battery optimizations and bug fixes regarding the 3g and wireless radios.

Anyway nice review
Thank You. I did turn off GPS for a while but then I realized it doesn't stay on unless your using an application that uses GPS (Map, image tagging, location updating) so I turned it on Wednesday morning and have left it on since I left my house Wednesday morning. I have location updating turned off so my chat friends can't see my location. =D. I believe that would drain the most battery since that would be constantly poll the GPS.

I also disabled bluetooth for a while, but I don't think that made a difference since it's not transmitting or receiving if it's not connected to anything. So since Wednesday afternoon I just leave the bluetooth enabled. I turn my headphones off because my headphones battery life is about 6-7 hours and I can't wear them in class anyway. :P

Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
Coming from the N800, what do you think about the keyboard? To me the biggest problem (in addition to it being impossible to use from the couch) is that the 'function' key (the blue arrow above the shift key) is just below the key with 'Sym' in blue. I have to press Sym a lot, to get access to the missing '|' character on the hw keyboard, and I find it very difficult to do 'func+sym'. I wish the shift key and the function key were interchanged, even though that would leave the shift key in a 'non-standard' position w.r.t. the Z key - that matters little on a thumb keyboard anyway though.

I'm not a fan of the hardware keyboard's layout. I agree with your opinion on the positioning of the left modifier keys (shift, function, ctrl). I'm starting to get the hang of it but I can't help but wonder how it would be if they were moved around. I personally find using the function key to type numbers annoying since I have to hold the function key and then type the numbers in (some which are on the left side). Luckily if your typing in #s or caps for a while you can just hit the modifier key twice and it should say stay on that for a while. Yet, despite these issues I do find myself using the hard keyboard more than the soft keyboard.
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