Thread: OrangeBox is a troll...and you are so wrong
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2009-12-27 , 20:47
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#171
Originally Posted by krisse View Post
OrangeBox, you posted this on one of your threads:

"Taking pictures (with the N900) with one hand is near impossible, because the slider either pops open ifI support the phone from the bottom with my thumb or if I support it from the back, the touch screen gets pushed."

...I am really struggling here to try to recreate this in real life.

The N900's camera button is at a totally different end of the phone to the slider. If you're taking pictures with one hand, holding the phone from both sides with that one hand to support its weight and your thumb or middle finger on the camera button, it is almost impossible to even touch the slider.

I cannot hold the N900 in any natural camera-button-pressing position where my thumb or fingers are even vaguely near the slider. I've tried one-handed and two-handed, nothing resembles your description.

The only explanation that makes sense is that you've never actually taken photos with an N900. Or else you're making stuff up.

Either way, you're deliberately misleading people into thinking this device is flawed in a way in which it isn't. Why?
Hi, please try this to reproduce the problem:
form a reversed C with your right hand where your thumb is on the bottom and the other 4 fingers are on the top. Then with your left hand place the N900 in the opening of the C, so that the bottom of the phone rests on your thumb. Then if you try to make a pic with your one hand (right only) you will notice that you have to balance the whole phone on your thumb. As you depress the shutter with your index finger, you want to ensure that the phone doesn't shake, so basically you're whole hand has to stiff up. You'll notice that as you depress, the phone screen portion would slide up from the keyboard.
When this happens, you will naturally try to support the phone not from the buttom, but from the end (screen side). The problem with this is that you will inadvertantly press something with the back of your thumb, from which the only way to exit out is to use your left hand.
In other words while it is possible to take a pic with one hand only it really takes a lot of practice and it is cumbersome. Hope this explains my frustration.