Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2007-10-27 , 15:39
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Originally Posted by lbattraw View Post
I would love to see a good PIM suite, and *maybe* some office-type applications. It's surprisingly hard to get any full-on office work done on such a small screen; I've tried it on Palms and other PDAs with mixed success. --A lot of scrolling involved.
A Psion series 3a was my main computer for five years. I did extensive document creating, editing and even printing, both wordprocessor and spreadsheet, on it and kept several large databases. Scrolling was hardly an issue, but then the Psion's office applications were exceptionally well designed, way beyond anything that is currently available for portable devices.

I later used a Newton 2100 messagepad, again as my main computer, for another three years, with similar results, albeit that the Newton's office applications were slightly less well-designed.

It's not the screen size that is the problem, it's the software...