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2009-12-06 , 20:47
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#11
My last phone couldn't do it either. Really, it does feel like you're best off not thinking of the N900 as a smartphone - it's a very smart computer with an always-on internet connection, that comes with a slightly dumb phone packed in for free.
 
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2009-12-06 , 20:50
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Oh, give it a break please
You first.

It's not a phone.

It's a computer with a phone application. Seriously. If it means THAT much for you to have a special ringtone, go get the little cheapy phone at your local provider. Obviously a phone is all you need.

If, in fact you need all the other things a Linux computer can provide, then take it in stride and keep in mind that the phone application that just happened to come installed on the Linux machine is in version 1.0, and will certainly have updates to it.
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2009-12-06 , 20:52
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Thanks guys. You are right. I will be waiting for the firmware update.
 
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2009-12-06 , 21:07
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If you want this feature, vote for it in bugzilla:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5356

https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?act...5356#vote_5356

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2009-12-06 , 21:19
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Originally Posted by Discman View Post
If it can't do that I will return the phone to Nokia. Siemens C55 can do that and it is 7 years old
Lol. Nokia phones have been doing it for about 10 years now. Which makes it even more shocking that this device doesn't have it. It is very very important to me (have like a 100 ring tones). Want to know when it is my wife calling or whether it is a friend I can ignore. Bought the phone in faith that it is something so basic there is no way the feature will not be added in the future. I hope I am right otherwise I will be quite pissed off with Nokia.
 
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2009-12-06 , 21:31
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Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Lol. Nokia phones have been doing it for about 10 years now. Which makes it even more shocking that this device doesn't have it. It is very very important to me (have like a 100 ring tones). Want to know when it is my wife calling or whether it is a friend I can ignore. Bought the phone in faith that it is something so basic there is no way the feature will not be added in the future. I hope I am right otherwise I will be quite pissed off with Nokia.
I will be a little angry too if it is not added, but considering the fact that I can work literally anywhere now (as my job demands it as an IT professional), I'm willing to look past it for now. The benefits far outweigh having to glance at my phone to see who's calling for Pete's sake.
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2009-12-06 , 21:34
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Could you please stop comparing the n900 to all the phones for the last 10 years?
I'm not a "it's not a phone" fan (it makes calls => it's a phone), but you have to keep in mind that this is brand new stuff (it's the first time a maemo device gets a phone module). Also, if i stretch my memory a bit, i can remember hordes of mindless fans chanting "give us the n900, anyway it is, just sooner!!!" right here on t.m.o. , just about a month ago.
This is pretty common sense stuff, and it will probably come when they get around to it. Now stop whining and go search for your life!
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2009-12-06 , 21:40
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When I first thought about buying this phone, I naively assumed this functionality might even be scriptable by the user. The titchy linux I got going on my old htc universal seemed to be this way (I never fully investigated it because of the flaky WLAN driver)

Looking at some of the links in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35311 I (half-seriously) wonder if the problem might be that the software stack written to allow this type of programming is so hard to use that a basic telephony app was all that could be produced on time?
 

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2009-12-06 , 21:41
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I can use my desktop computer to make calls.

is it a phone?
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2009-12-06 , 21:46
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok View Post
You first.

It's not a phone.

It's a computer with a phone application. Seriously. If it means THAT much for you to have a special ringtone, go get the little cheapy phone at your local provider. Obviously a phone is all you need.

If, in fact you need all the other things a Linux computer can provide, then take it in stride and keep in mind that the phone application that just happened to come installed on the Linux machine is in version 1.0, and will certainly have updates to it.
Exactly,
You have to understand this is brand new ground for this operating system.
It's not as if they can simply take modules from their symbian OS and plug them into maemo.
This is the first time the phone has been integrated with this operating system. They have to program everything from scratch, including the basic phone features, to work with maemo.
This is why a lot of basic features are missing.... But they will come eventually, I would put my money on that.

I just hope a lot of these upgrades come sooner rather than later because there are some features that I had on my "Dumb Phone" TM506 that I do not have on the N900. for example, being able to tether my N800 with it to share its 3G connection.
That's what I had been doing with the old TM506, but no longer

I would still take the N900 over anything else at this point. The possibilities are endless.
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