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	danramos	2010-09-15 , 17:36
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Originally Posted by ossipena

you forgot the "if you live in canada" -part with that still -stuff, so you are still biased.

Heres my biased part: my little brother tried to get his htc hero repaired a month ago but he didn't have sn of the unit printed to paper (you can read it from device) and it was no go...

Oh right, sorry... anywhere OUTSIDE OF EUROPE. (By the by, I'm in the New England region of the US, not Canada.. but it appears that Europe is about the only place to get halfway decent Nokia service.)

Originally Posted by ME2g

Btw apropos repair:
I like this one:
http://www.swissmania.ch/category_10...satzteile.html

I hope that I will never use it.

And again--doesn't help, can't buy anything.

Originally Posted by ME2g

From the postings that I read I doubt that they were careful
("tripped over" and the like).

I also find it incredibly humorous to hear someone say that you need to be careful with a mobile device. I thought they were intended to be mobile, therefore likely to experience pressure and shock. Aren't these things DESIGNED to be taken with you, plugged and unplugged repeatedly and likely to be kept in a pocket or dropped?

Originally Posted by allnameswereout

I believe a device which works out of the box and allows you to spend ages tweaking to get your optimal experience/usability is even better!

On an iPod touch I can't get full Bluetooth working. On a Nokia N900 it is 2 minutes work.

Does it take 2 minutes to get a bluetooth keyboard supported too? Ironically, on my N800 it took nearly no time at all. From what I understand about the N900, it takes somewhat longer than 2 minutes (at first, it wasn't possible at all until someone had to tweak it).

Just saying--it's best if a device is solid to start with, THEN gives you the ability to tweak it all to hell. Having neither is pretty much where Maemo is right now, given all the closed components. It's my great hope that MeeGo provides both, but I'm still waiting to see what closed-source abominations Nokia will roll out in their MeeGo images to ruin the otherwise excellent work being done by the MeeGo folks.

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