QF !

Honestly, I have half a mind to package that up as a deb, just for fun. Only it's so utterly ******ed, that I'm not about to go through with the Extra's project, and I know what flak I'd get if I don't...

What are you guys all doing in the dark that you need a flashlight so badly? Just turn on a light for god's sake... LOL

Looking for the light switch?

I've got to admit using that platform they could easily be in direct competition with the ITs. I hope the N900 team takes note...

You need to think more like a modern user and less like a programmer. Users generally don't care about memory issues, they just want good behaviors that work smoothly and efficiently.

The value of tabbed browsing has nothing to do with memory constraints. Sure, you can open a bunch of different windows, but then you the user have to manage them -- layering, positioning, making sure you know what all you have open. Tabbed browsing is like taking all the papers on your desk and putting them in a single pile (with tabs on each page so you can find the page you want, of course): suddenly you have all the rest of the desk to put *other* items on.

(Further, good tabbed mechanisms allow you to drag a tab out of the window into its own window, or from one window to another. So you don't have to have just one pile, you can have three or four, thematically grouped.)

And of course, there are user behaviors that aren't viable without tabbed browsing. Every morning on my desktop box, I like to visit a few news, blog, and webcomic websites -- 56 of them, currently. Hand managing 4 or 5 browser windows is one thing, but managing dozens of them isn't really doable.

Even on the N800, I like to open a small number (4-5) of similar sites and pop back and forth between them, dealing with a few items on each cycle. Being able to (a) open a raft of windows at once rather than one at a time, and (b) being able to click in the current window on an always-showing and same-location UI item to switch between rather than having to open the popup on the sidebar and scan to find the one I want and then choose it, those would be browsing boons.

There is a SIP client

http://www.truphone.com/iphone/

I used to use the S60 version when I had an E70 and I LOVED it, they had free calls for about 12 months. The iphone iteration seems to be pretty limited (no speakerphone, no VOIP over 3G etc) and not as integrated as the S60 version.

interesting view: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071101452.html

Some of the points on that page are wrong...

For example: embedded youtube videos are rendered in the page and you tap them to bring up the fullscreen player. he states that its shown as a broken link, but he is wrong.

I would say my only disappointment with the iPhone is the lack of copy and paste.

for me a key selection criteria is Bluethooh. I sync at work with bluethooth, the same at home and my car has a media center (including phone) with bluetooth.

I cannot live without it now. I enter the car, and the phone automatically connects to the car sound system and I can take and make the calls with voice commands (and avoid the 800 euro fine for using the phone while driving ;-)

Why Apple decided to keep bluetooth out?