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	zerojay	2007-10-01 , 16:54
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Originally Posted by PowerUser

- Firmware with Skype detects my fingers poorly, slightly worse than 3.200 did. I'm unable to set up sensitivity to level where it detects my fingers as good as 3.200 did. Attempted to use settings slider, it did become better but still worse than in older firmware. But Nokia calls this improved screen sensitivity. Huh?

I didn't have that problem. It felt much better to me.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- Sound is sometimes getting interrupted under load. Looks like sometimes sound subsystem can't handle data in a REAL-time fashion. This even affects boot-up sound.

Agreed, but the tablet doesn't run a real-time OS anyways... and neither do you at home. The problem is in the linux scheduler. I remember around the time of the first or second firmware update for the N800, I was able to listen to music as the N800 scanned for access points without my music skipping, but ever since one of those firmware updates, I get skips while scanning. Someone probably forgot to enable the kernel preemption stuff.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- Battery indicator sometimes performs strange in recent firmware with Skype. After heavy load it can immediately drop charge from "full" to "almost empty". You thinked battery full? Nope! Surprise! :P.

I've seen this somewhat rarely. It does appear to be a regression.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- Sometimes there is strange issues with tray area. Icons behave strangely a bit. For example connection indicator may display something but not a real connction status. Very rare issue, seems to occur when changing several connections in short time.

Never seen it.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- Sometimes when you're using alarm clock tablet may occasionally hang on alarm event. I was not able to reproduce this well enough but seen couple of times.

I've never had this problem, thankfully. It's what I use to wake me up in the morning!

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- Built in player is slow as jerk in decoding and handles very few video formats. Mplayer is a way faster in video decoding and eats much more videos. Are there worse players on market? Nokia's players are crap, both in phones and n800 as well.

I'd be happy with the built-in player if it could play a few more formats (WMV) and if some of the relatively simple bugs piling up on Bugzilla would be fixed.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- And no, you can't just "File -> Open" in player and play desired video file. You have to use File Manager instead (surprise, yep, video player can't open video on it's own). What a ***** logic. Nokia's player imho one of the worst I ever seen.

It sure can. Library -> Video. Your clips are all right there.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- File manager may take a while to navigate on card with bug directory tree with lots of files.Imagine 20 folders, each with 500 photos, some subdirs, etc. Now try to browse it. What? It's so s-l-o-w in file manager!

It's not too bad for me, but sure, I would like to see it faster.

Originally Posted by PowerUser

- When you're about to view info on memory use on such card via control panel, info dialog uses CPU and RAM extensively while scanning card. Then all crashes to the hell due to out of RAM. At very best only according app crashes. But due to global RAM outage sometimes whole system may become unstable...

Never had this happen to me. The only time I ever really have instability is when attempting to use the camera application.

I don't think it's fair to say that Nokia's QA should have caught the bug. It's a rare set of circumstances without any obvious errors. I've used my tablet for 4-10 hours a day, 7 days a week for about 5 or 6 months. If someone that's as heavy a user of the tablet as me never even once had this problem, how can you expect QA to easily find it? Answer: you don't.

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