Thread: Thinking of giving up on n900, please give your opinion
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gerbick
2010-10-17 , 19:35
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
This is trumped-up BS. You do have to pay about $10 for the charger. "You can't use the phone while you're charging" is just false if you buy a few batteries, as I suggested in the message you are responding to.
Trumped up yet you admit there's an extra charge... which was exactly what I said. It's an extra charge; what part of that is disputable?

I don't have to buy an external battery charger for any other phone in the last 10 years; but I need to buy one to avoid my microUSB from falling out on my N900?

And why do you have to buy all those chargers and I don't? I find that one is plenty. Of course, paying another $10 or even $20 would be cheap.
It still costs extra. Denial will not bypass that fact.

As for the wear in opening the case, it's about as much of a problem as opening your refrigerator door. Actually, less.
My refrigerator was manufactured to be opened multiple times per day. The battery hatch on a device are typically not.

I've been doing this with Nokia tablets for years without problems. How much experience do you have trying this solution? I suspect zero, judging from the objections you raised.
I bent the tabs on my N810 battery hatch once. Nokia was nice enough to replace that, I pulled my battery out much less after that.

It's not about my experience with your half assed "solution"... it's the simple fact you're in such denial that you've yet to admit that an external battery charger and extra battery(-ies) are an expense over and above the price of the N900 and shouldn't really exist if the damn thing (microUSB) was built right in the first place.

State that first, then I might listen to your "solution". Otherwise, you just added about another $100 to the purchase of an $500+ phone that still might fault out in under a year in regards to the microUSB port - gotta use it to update, move large files around... use the port as it was supposed to be used and not baby it like it might break... oh, because it might break.
Last edited by gerbick; 2010-10-17 at 19:42.