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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2010-01-27 , 20:33
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#91
Originally Posted by Alan_Peery View Post
That particular behavior annoy you, but it's EXACTLY what I want my N900 to do.

I don't have my headphones on every moment at work. If I pull them off and leave them lying on the desk, the *best* way I will know that a call is incoming is the ring out through the phone's speakers. Yes, I could try and keep the N900 in my peripheral vision, but if I turn around to talk to someone on the other side of me I'd miss the call.

Yes, I can see why you want it your way. And I would agree that missing that way of operation does knock it down from "really good".
Yes, and there's a common sense solution to it - play the ringtone through the device speakers when music is not being played through the headphones, but play the ringtone through the headphones when music IS being played. A sensible enough solution that will work for virtually all people, instead the carriage gets to hear my ringtone and I get near silence through my noise cancelling headphones.

You'd think Nokia would have worked this out after all their years manufacturing phones yet they seem to be utter novices.
 

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