Originally Posted by Corso85

Refer to this post:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=16

Originally Posted by Fargus

Have you heard of Google? I specifically went to find a reference to show you that several manufacturers have products as you would have noticed had you read the article. Look at the IBM thinkpad then. For once put some effort into things!

Thinkpad X60

Thinkpad X Series

Other manufacturers make similar products (including Nokia) but I can't be bothered to do the job of google for you!

Originally Posted by Fargus

This makes little or no sense to me. I have done you the courtesy of resonding to your comments inline, in reasonable detail. If you are trying to make a point please clarify as I can't see what you are talking about?

Originally Posted by Corso85

Please refer to my post. It seems. you don't read mine thoroughly either. The point made was there are "Laptops that fit in the palm of ones hand with 3g that can make phone calls and sms".

Thinkpad X-Series is not that at all.

Originally Posted by Corso85

My Laptop does not fit in the palm of my one hand.
My Laptop does not have a 3g chip.
My Laptop does not send sms.
However,
My laptop runs windows 7 and Ubuntu.
My Laptop is C2D with 4GB ram.

My n900 is not as strong as my laptop. My n900 cannot be compared to my laptop, nor can it replace my laptop.

My n900 does not type vertically, cause a decision was made to not invest in this option in the current release of its operating system.

You can excuse the decision, but it does not matter. Many people will still ask for it. Because it is a logical request.

It's either a phone or a tablet. you wanna mix them, then people will expect you to do a good job on both sides.

Originally Posted by Fargus

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The N900 is a 'talet like device' that is capable of making phone calls. Many laptops have the ability to utilise a sim card to make a cellular connection rather than plug in a usb cellular modem.

Just because it can make calls doesn't make the device specifically a phone any more than the introduction of fax protocols on computers made them a fax machine.
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Originally Posted by Fargus

Actually your understanding is not correct. To avoid possible confusion I am placing that as a plain statement. No reference is being made to other's use case on this. Your assumption, yes it is an assumption, has been corrected once, do not start trying to place your own viewpoint as my stated point; I don't believe that I have done the same to yourself so please do not disrespect others on this forum!

Originally Posted by Fargus

Amazing, even with having to cope with no predictive text or portrait mode either. I guess struggling with this 'awful' hardware keyboard can't be that bad then!

Nice to see it's not just me that thought this was an obvious thing too then.

Originally Posted by Corso85

My point was that the major advertising. The advertising that sold the N900. was not made by nokia. it was made through blogs and reviews.

However, that is not a big deal. It's a major HW change that is requested. it's not even system wide like you say. its just an app. so whats the big deal? why can't they just make it? since many are asking?

Originally Posted by Corso85

This is an informative statement? Really?

Originally Posted by Corso85

Reallly?

Now if I say "How is that for consitency.". You'd be offended right? even though it's a plain statement?

Originally Posted by Fargus

Okay so if I understand you correctly you are asking Nokia to be responsible for something that they had no control over and was not sourced from them but by a 3rd party blogger/reviewer?

I would agree that it might make a lot of sense (and I have argued for this as well on this site) that implimenting text from the phone app keyboard as an option would be a nice touch.

The issue for Nokia is that the Maemo team are a tiny section of the Nokia team. Whilst this is a nice to have feature it is not high up on the list of things to do as the device is usuable (even if awkward for some users) without this addition and there are other things that need to be addressed before this. There are a number of technologies that are being implimented behind the scenes such as USSD and ironing out a huge list of bugs too. With resource stretched then it makes sense to stabilise things prior to adding additional functionality which in turn might introduce bugs as well. Better a well functioning device with limitations that can be added later than a feature frenzy that is bug ridden.

Originally Posted by Fargus

Why can you not post responses in a less emotive manner? The whole post you are quoting was in response to someone else, about another person's post and you belabour something that I have answered already. Does this sound a less emotive response?