Thread: iPhone's here... Say Goodbye to Nokia
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Bernard is offline Bernard
2007-06-25 , 13:00
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#63
Originally Posted by sapporobaby View Post
The ability to sync contacts and have calendaring info is crucial for military applications. Without these basics the N800 is a non-starter. As for the other issues, touch screen, I did not personally have this but have read about many that did have it. Bad batch maybe. I did get the reboot cycle of death, and the crash and burn quite often. In its current state I could not recommend the N800.
A year ago I had similar problems on my Nokia 770. The touchscreen was defective and it crashed/rebooted a lot (seemingly random) . I think these two things are related. I send it in for repair and after that the touchscreen was perfect and the device hasn't crashed since . (The opera browser did close on some rare moment, but no more random reboots)
BTW they didn't change the mainboard, only my touchscreen, I know because the the MAC address was still the same one. So I think a defective touchscreen can have severely negative impact on stability.
(I assumed here that the Mac address is unique for the board, in the same way that the imei number is for the Nokia phones: if they need to change the circuit board than your imei changes)

Might I ask what made you consider the N800 if calendar and contact applications are so vital? It isn't one of the features on any spec sheet I have seen. It isn't a PDA and was never marketed as such, so what made you look into the N800 in the first place? Surely those positive things that made you look are still present?

I agree a lot of thing can be improved, but I use the device a lot and found it a lot more useful than the Windows mobile PDA's I tried.