Thread: Is the N900 ever going to be a polished product?
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kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-07-03 , 15:30
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#54
Originally Posted by Nathraiben View Post
As far as I know, Nokia never marketed this as a smartphone anywhere, but I just realised yesterday that some of the retailers do, sadly.
How or what Nokia market it as is irrelevant. When they launched the N93 (or was it the N95?) their marketing nonsense was something like "It's what the computer has become".

What is relevant here is whether they have put in love and passion to make it a polished product. Where features are complete and work as advertised and there are no nasty surprises.

But the fact is that all Nokia's phones for the past 5 years at least are works in progress and most are never finished and are abandoned in favour of the next new phone.


Boot a Windows PC. Open ANY application. Open any OTHER application. Compare their icons.
This is more of a UI issue. It's obvious the people who made maps for the N900 didn't read the maemo UI guidelines.


... They don't have to be, as long as their controls don't stray too far from what the average user is used to.
Exactly. The average user is used to the "fullscreen" button having an arrow pointing in a NW direction. Along comes maps and decides that having the arrow pointing SE would be a good idea, and having it pointing NW would toggle it back to non-fullscreen mode.
 

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