Originally Posted by Texrat

Hard to say. But it's easy to find out: rub it against typical surfaces and see if it can attract things like tissue. Just be aware if the case IS static-prone it will likely pick up dust during testing.

I would *hope* they had used a static-resistant material, but then, sometimes that isn't considered...

Originally Posted by Descalzo

I just checked the site and they say it's not compatible with the N900.

But if you use it I'll believe you over them and try it.

Originally Posted by ossipena

I wish these points could be edited to match reality:

Well if you say something which is reality I will amend

There must be something to scratch the screen, right? yes the screen is scratch prone but the scratches doesn't appear nowhere like baby jesus was born...

Whether there is something to scratch it is kinda besides the point. I did not have anything in my pocket other than the N900 and got two massive scratches within two months use. In contrast I had an ipod touch for three months. I hate Apple and was like a hammer on my head owning any of their products so treated it like ****. Dumped keys and anything else imaginable in same pocket and did not get a single scratch. Fact is the N900 screen scratches more easily than those of many of its competitors for comsumers money - iphone, HTC Desire, HTC Legend.

many is the worst word one could possibly have put there...

Will change to some.

isn't this obivous if you have looked more than one picture from the device?

Yes but you may not appreciate what it means for your usage until you have to type a few docs with lots of numbers mixed in. However, someone else has said it is a preference so I think I will delete it. Major issue for me though because most of my use other than as a phone and media player is Conboy which I use for taking notes in Church and when doing Bible study and well when the pastor says Matthew 7:7 it gets annoying having to do alternate for the 7, Upper Case for the : and then alternate again for the other 7.

I get 10+ hours with facebook + gtalk. so imo that should be mentioned: better protocol - double the battery duration

Well I have already said yahoo and msn are culprits and said it is not an issue unique to the N900. But will change to mention that facebook + gtalk give much better results.

these are called defect units. these should be replaced asap. (you can get a brand new if you return the device within xx days at least in Finland)

Really? Thought this was a wide spread issue hence the thread on this site with over a 1000 posts or so and that this was a software issue which was fixed for many in the last firmware update but I still have the problem.

depends fully what you are running and what not. and what do you concider smooth anyway?

Not sure how to describe smoothly and not even sure it is a relative term. It is either smooth or it's not and well it is not as far as I am concerned. But will edit to say depends on what you have

then why in the heavens name you don't use iTunes?!?! it can be used with any device cabable mounting to your PC as an usb stick....

Sorry but I don't know how to. As far as I know Apple blocks anything from synching with itunes that is not an Apple device. The Palm Pres had itunes synch and then Apple intentionally disabled this. If you are saying there is a work around I will edit to say this but will have to mention that it is not straightforward as just simply synching an iphone to itunes.

will be fixed when PR1.2 is released.

Thanks will edit to say this. When the firmware comes out it will of course be deleted altogether.

thank you!

Originally Posted by zanzibar2

As quoted by 9000

I've deleted most of the quote from 9000 due to its length. Sarcasm courtesy of 9000 comes to mind...not a constructive response.

However I would be interested to know how I can assign different ring tones to different contacts? I am a newbie to the N900 (as most of us are) and not familiar how to do this. You been a pro perhaps you can enlighten me? I'm sorry if that sounds offensive to you.

Zan

Originally Posted by etuoyo

Please do not attack me pointlessly as so many of you love to do. This is meant to be constructive. Let me know what issues you think I have missed out so the list can be as comprehensive as possible.

Please do not say I don't have that issue so it does not exist. Everything I will list other than from what others have contributed will be from my own experience and I am not making anything up.

Maybe eventually this can be changed to a wiki or something. Hopefully this will prevent others buying a device which is not suitable for them.

(i)The screen scratches more easily than capacitive screens. I have two very large scratches on my screen despite making sure I put absolutely nothing in the same pocket as the N900. Be sure you use a screen protector because no matter how careful you are the screen may get scratched.

(ii) There is a serious manufacturing defect with the micro-usb socket of many of the N900s. For some it has fallen out completely. For me the device no longer charges from a charger. It has to be charged from PC via USB cable. Nokia have been made aware of the problem and hopefully have fixed it in the latest builds but there is no guarantee this is so and there is no guarantee that even if they have you will not end up with an older batch so be aware of this risk.

(iii) Only three row keyboard layout so you need to use alternate for the numbers keys.

If you do not have IM accounts turned on then the battery should easily last you through the day. However, with some IM accounts (not sure which are the culprits but yahoo and msn seem to be amongst) you should generally expect around 6 hours use on average. Not really an issue specific to the N900 though - Engagdet's review of the HTC Desire says they had 6 hours with similar use.

(i) Some devices randomly restart.

(ii) The transition between the four desktops is far from smooth.

(iii) You cannot jump to the particular desktop you want like you can with HTC's Sense interface. You can scroll forward or backwards so can go from 1 to 2 or 1 to 4. But you cannot go straight from 1 to 3. You must scroll through 2 to get to 3.

(iv) Scrolling through a long list is terribly jerky. For example if you are scrolling through the thumbnails of your photos.

(v) If you have a lot of media going to a folder with many sub-folders or files will cause the device to slow down to the point of the file manager being unusable.

(vi) The device can sometimes be slow and unresponsive. If you are a Linux expert or are lucky you will never have any slow down or apps freezing up. However, it is generally not as snappy as an iphone for the general user where you tap an icon and it opens up immediately.

(vii) The screen does not refresh automatically for some reason. If the screen goes off (battery saver) when you wake it up it will show for a couple of seconds exactly what it was showing before it went to sleep. So if the time was 14.50 then and is now 16.30 it will initially show 14.50. Or if you are listening to music it will show the song details of the song that was playing before the screen went off.

(viii) It takes longer than it should to switch from portrait mode to landscape and vice versa.

(ix) There is no full portrait mode on the device so makes one handed operation rather difficult or virtually impossible. There is only portrait mode on phone app, web browser and some third party apps.

The Ovi Maps version on the N900 is outdated and misses voice turn by turn navigation. Note that most symbian devices have a full navigation software with turn by turn and voice whether walking or by car and this is free on these devices. On the N900 you have to pay for a third party programme.

This does not work properly with the N900. I may be wrong but at present it is not even working at all. Also if you are using your PC you cannot easily load apps from Ovi Store to your N900 the way you can with itunes and iphone. If you choose to install an app on your PC all that happens is you get a link sent to your phone by sms and then you have to follow the link which takes you to the Ovi Store.

(i) Videos stutter a lot for the first few seconds of play back.

(ii) The N900 has a serious problem with displaying proper tags for music files. For some it works fine for some it doesn't. For me it shows album artist and never song artist and album artist is almost pointless for me as many of my songs are from compilations and so just shows Various Artist rather than e.g. R. Kelly. Third party apps such as Media Box do not have this problem but may have their own issues.

(iii) Some album art do not show even though embedded.

(iv) Tracker which updates media file info is very often defective. You can add media files and they not show up in the media player for a week. You can reset tracker or kill it, etc using terminal but be warned it is very often not like what you are used to where you transfer files via usb and your files show up immediately.

(v) Creating playlists is not as intuitive as it should be. You need to add songs to now playing list then create playlist from the now playing list.

(vi) No proper functioning software to sync with your PC the way itunes syncs perfectly with iphone. You can use drag and drop but that is only helpful for the first sync of all your music and when you add new songs to your PC and are sure exactly what the news songs are and can just drag and drop them. There is Ovi Music but it does not work with the N900. Third party PC software programmes can sync but many of them just sync to the main documents folder or the main music folder rather than in an organised manner (via artist, album artist, etc) and so create a huge mess and will kill your use of file manager. You may get something to work properly but will be quite an effort compared to using itunes and iphone.

(vii) Currently no equaliser though I don't see much point in an equaliser but just be aware there is none in the media player.

(viii) The play button on the media player widget does not work for some.

(ix) No way to stretch to full screen in the default media player (though mplayer a third party app will do so).

Email

(i) There is no easy way to search your emails.

(ii) Nokia Messaging sometimes has delay in pushing emails to the device. Delay can be 15 minutes, can be a couple of hours. If you have a job where you need to be contacted immediately by email better to use a blackberry.

(i) The phone cannot say the name of the caller.

(ii) You cannot have custom ringtones for each caller.

(iii) You cannot have caller groups.

(iv) The call log is pretty poor. It just lists all types of calls (incoming, outgoing, missed) in one long list.

(v) For some it randomly goes to speaker mode whilst you are on the phone.

(vi) For some the call volume drops on and off.

(vii) Only general and silent profiles (although there is an app that seeks to get around that).

(viii) No way to set the phone to divert all calls to voicemail. You need to download a third party app to achieve this.

(ix) Cannot dial numbers starting with * or # without the use of a third party widget so without the third party widget you are unable to top up your credit or check your balance in certain countries.

(x) No MMS unless you get a third party app.

(i) If playing video I cannot receive calls.

(ii) Sometimes the phone rings with a blank screen for a few seconds so no way to answer the phone. I know a few others have had this issue but not sure how wide spread it is.

Originally Posted by woody14619

At someone elses urging, I'm trying something new, and hopefully more "productive".

One constructive bit, this thread has served (and will continue to) as a good source of topics which we can use to help create a constructive list of fixes or work-arounds from. Feel free to take things people here are bitc.. noting and post working solutions on the sister page. (Then maybe note that you did that here, with a link to your post, like I've done?)

Originally Posted by etuoyo

You can't. Which is why I was surprised to see that in his post. Along with alot of other things in there. Unless I have missed a new third party app.

Originally Posted by ysss

So was this all gerbick's idea or are you just somehow using his name for some sort of benefit...

Originally Posted by ysss

I would've considered your post to be positive and constructive if it wasn't betrayed by that part in bold.