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Rob1n	2010-04-12 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by twoboxen

Exactly. You're completely right, but will get lambasted on this forum. Too many people that won't face reality.

Or perhaps not everybody has exactly the same requirements from a phone?

Originally Posted by twoboxen

Email / Calendar all but fail when you lose data connection. Really? How can that not be a design consideration to have offline caching?

Email maybe, but I don't see any network dependency whatsoever with calendar. This hasn't caused me any issues yet anyway, as I've never been offline when I've wanted to read email.

Originally Posted by twoboxen

I have to fight with the phone just to answer a call. When I try to hit answer the phone decides that it will flip to portrait, so I have to stare & wait for the orientation to adjust the UI so I can press the button. Sometimes it tries to flip immediate back to landscape then AGAIN to portrait; in these times I end up missing the call, because I can't answer the damn phone in time.

Then disable the auto-rotate. I don't see any point in it myself, so've never enabled it.

Originally Posted by twoboxen

That's why the killer app for this thing will be when Android is ported. I do like the hardware (brick that it may be), but I need reliable office tools.

That's hardly a killer app - it's a killer OS. And I'm not sure how good Android is when you don't have access to any of the Google tools (as those are not licensed on any other handsets).

Anyway, I can quite understand that the N900 doesn't meet all your requirements, but please don't go claiming that those of us who are quite happy with what it does cannot "face reality" or are not "serious users".