Well, I wish it was as easy as it sounds. I know about this method of sliding finger from the left side of the screen (off the screen actually) and then clicking the icon that appears. I have seen enough videos of that too. But when I do the same thing, only thing that happens is the page actually moves towards the right side and then when I lift the finger, it goes back to the edge. I have tried it slowly, fast, without lifting the finger, lifting the finger everything possible. But the "hit-rate" is still something like 1:25

I had two screen protectors earlier. First one was called "privacy screen protector" which was similar to the privacy screen protectors that you get for your laptop (only the person straight in front of the screen can see what's on the screen). I removed that and in the process destroyed it to get this bloody cursor to work. After that the hit rate improved from 1:100 to 1:50! So I gave up. I couldn't use it anyway so I bought a transparent screen protector again and continued with the life

Then I discovered this Google Map Mobile and again it was time to start to bring back that damn cursor to life. So I ruined another transparent screen protector too in the hope of getting this cursor to work. I was so desperate that I put on the YouTube video on one computer and tried to do the same way with the N900! Nothing helped. Still the hit rate is something like 1:25 to 1:30. Believe it or not there are almost small grooves starting from the left edge of the screen towards the center of the screen caused by all this trial and error to get the god-damned cursor to appear!

Well, like my signature says, this is the last Maemo device I have! (Next one is going to be MeeGo ) Let's hope that they have been able to discover a better way to use that cursor by then!