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NokTokDaddy	2010-04-23 , 11:05
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Originally Posted by Mengs

You're kidding right? ...

I still see some people arguing about how it was marketed as a computer in your palms and not a phone etc etc! But even as a computer it's not working the way it's supposed to.

You guys are just repeating yourself! I argue that the phone function doesn't work, you counter that it's not supposed to be a phone but a computer. I say the computer function sucks, you tell me that it's a community driven device. It's like every single argument I have for not liking this phone, people have a counter argument ready to go.

Just admit already that Nokia is not putting enough effort into satisfying their N900 users!

I have posted elsewhere that I never bought into the 'internet tablet/it's a computer' excuse, but having used the N900 mainly as a phone I can see where this arguement was coming from:

The N900 mobile phone dials numbers more like you would from a computer than from a conventional phone.

If you need to have conventional speed-dial you need to have physical buttons.A touchscreen powers down /locks out to save battery and touchscreens are too sensitive to be left on all the time anyway. If you need speed dial and single-handed action to (say) dial whilst you're driving N900 is not the best choice - buy a phone with physical buttons.

On just about every touchscreen phone you have to do things to make a call. Typically:

Slide open/power up
Select contacts list
Input letters from name
Select contact
Select the right number
Dial

or at least:

Slide open/power up
Select favourite contacts or dial pad
press and hold conact/speed dial number to dial

On my N900:

Power Up/Slide Open
Input letters from name
Select contact
Tap the right number to dial

or:

Slide open/power up
Select (tap) contact from desktop
tap the right number to dial

What could be easier than that? I can run 30 contacts over three homepages - that's over 60 numbers. The N900 is unbeatable as a telephone, IMO, but perhaps we should start a campaign for telekinetic dialing on PR1.3...

I know some people have issues with accepting calls - that ties in to your second point about develoment and support. I don't think Nokia are any better or any worse than other mfrs in this respect. Go to an iphone, Android or WM forum and see the rants about waiting for updates and missing features generally. We are not alone!

We are getting ongoing support for N900 from Nokia. If you gather tweets like I do you'll notice a week rarely goes by without Nokia releasing updates to older models - some now quite venerable. We have had updates and we know updates are imminent because they have told us. Just what evidence to you have to think N900 will be an exception to this policy?

We also have the added support of this forum and the clever buggers who can write apps and develop the software alongside Nokia.

I don't think you'll get that package elsewhere, but I'm open to any suggestions you might have. Polite ones, of course

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