People have been laughing at me with my N900.

I was heading off for a walk in the countryside when I suggested we turn on the GPS to help us find our way. After ten minutes it still hadn't locked, and everyone lost patience and we started driving without the GPS.

Later we wanted a photo and I lined everyone up and clicked the shutter, only to get the dreaded "Operation Failed" alert. I tried again, same result. I said that I was going to try re-booting the phone, and by now everyone was laughing.

Of course, a re-boot did fix the problem, and also I am able to get a GPS fix sometimes. But I can understand why the others laugh, when some of them have phones that "just work". They don't understand that things like control-shift-X help to compensate for the deficiencies.

Regards,
Roger