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	PMaff	2011-02-24 , 15:35
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Originally Posted by mishmich

The other thing that bugs me a bit is that it is a bit fiddly if, when you call a number, holding the device like a phone, you then have to start pressing numbers; or if you are speaking to somebody on it, and you have to look up a number for them. The latter has always been a pain for me - but the former seems worse when using a device without a numeric keypad.

Somehow I do not understand your problem.
Pressing numbers if you dial is straight forward on the N900.
Nothing special, nothing different than on other phones.

Looking up a contact during phone call: How do you want
to make it different?
You would need a kind of set off device if you do not want
to switch to loudspeaker. There is no other way that I know:
switch to loudspeaker, ask your telephone partner if she/he
still hears you (which is nearly always the case since the microphone and loudspeaker of N900 are very good, except if background noises are too loud), background phone application, look up contact in adress book, tell your telephone partner (or send an email),
tell your telephone partner that you have to switch off loudspeaker,
foreground telephone application, switch off loudspeaker,
proceed normally with phone call.
I do not see a problem here and I do not see, how other phones
would make this different or even with phone near ear.

Originally Posted by mishmich

I realise that within the form-factor there is not much can be done about it, although I do wonder how other similar devices work. It seems odd to me that when you use the device as a phone, you have to select the numeric keypad to open to replace a screen that shows you that you are on the phone to somebody

I do not understand...there is the phone icon in the status bar.
So you know you are still phoning.
Is this different on your N900?

Originally Posted by mishmich

with a button to disconnect. After cutting off mobile-phone sales cold-callers, the next most likely thing you would do with a phone would be to press a number, I'd have thought.

I am sure somebody will disagree with me on this vehemently, and tell me I am ignorant fool for saying so. Feel free to move this observation somewhere else if necessary.

Mish

I have the impression that there is something wrong with your
N900. ;-)
Misconfigured somehow? ;-)

Of course I'd like a 2nd use for e.g. camera button when phoning
which selects an application by voice control and selects an entry
within that application (in this case a calendar entry) and reads it to the telephone partner on the other end of line.
But even this would be odd for your telephone partner and
it would be a matter of procedure and not of technical issues.
I never heard of such a feature on other smartphones.

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