Thread: turning the volume up/down when the phone is locked?
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2010-02-25 , 11:44
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Originally Posted by Paul Lahner View Post
>>>>To be fair, how would the N900 know whether you wanted to zoom or whether you wanted to change volume?

For instance, when the headphones are plugged in and when the flash player plugin is receiving data from a web server.
Even in those circumstances you might equally want to zoom rather than change the volume. Lots of web pages have active Flash content, e.g. for adverts and navigation, and the N900 cannot read your mind to know whether you should zoom or change volume. Maybe there should be a toggle between the buttons zooming and them changing the volume.

Of course, in the context of this thread, while the phone is locked it obviously only makes sense for the buttons to change volume, not zoom.