Thread: After years of great experiences with Nokia, I got an N97 and a N900. Sadly.
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-02-12 , 16:38
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#56
Originally Posted by craftyguy View Post
Missing USSD support being a HUGE oversight by the largest PHONE manufacturer in the world...

My cell phone from 2001 (yes, 9 years ago) supports USSD "out of the box". It's a 'feature' you EXPECT from any phone in the market these days, and Nokia gave NO indication that support for it was missing in their marketing campaign (again, assuming that the majority of N900 customers do NOT frequent these developer-oriented forums..)
Something completely lacking still does not mean it was poorly implemented. It simply wasn't implemented.

I have no idea what USSD is and have never used it.. granted I can google and just learned but still - no need for it.

So.. while I can understand people were surprised that something was missing.. doesn't mean it was poorly implemented or even promised anywhere by Nokia that it *was* there. You made an assumption about it.. granted: A rightful assumption, since even Wikipedia seems to think Unstructured Supplementary Service Data is a capability of all GSM phones. .. but the fact remains: No where does it say that the N900 *does* support it.. and it's completely lacking - not "poorly" implemented.

And as far as this being a developer forum... I doubt that. I am pretty sure at this point we have more "users" than "developers" on this forum right now..
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