http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35075

Maybe they can't send the DDP N900s out until the Pandora ships.

Maybe they can send us Pandoras until they get their N900s in?

the more the wait, the better device you might get

I *think* they'll ship when they'll have them in stock
Or well, they might have them in stock already and are playing with them, just for the fun of it.. who knows...

One thing that worries me is that the order was not charged against the credit card. That's both good and bad, because as we creep towards Christmas, expenses on that card are also piling up.

It would be just my luck that they decide to ship and charge the card on just the day where it exceeds the monthly cap...

There are X people working for the DDP. These X people need to ship Y devices to members of the community. In order to test the microphones before shipping, each device has to actively call another device and receive a call from one of the other devices.

One test call takes 10 seconds.

a) Express the time (in hours) until delivery starts as a function of X and Y
b) Calculate the phone bill

c) Z percent of the Y devices turn out faulty. Verifying that and processing paperwork to secure a new one takes one hour per device.

Estimate the payoff to the DDP team if they just ship what's in the crates and be done with it :-)

It happens when a thread starts running out of steam.

What really blows is I'm entitled to the DDP discount but thanks to fallout from the economic crisis I can't take advantage of mine. Ah well. There's always Maemo 6...

Exactly... and for the record I'm not tired of waiting.

I was just looking for something to comment on in order to keep this thread up.

Someone recently joked about developing a new app for the Mic issue. For real dude!

Might I suggest a complete diagnostic app. One that generates patterns on the display to identify issues, waits for screen input and reports success, checks the cameras, checks the accelerometer, checks the phone portrait display, dialing buttons, hardware buttons, generates speaker tones, and performs a microphone loop back test.

Ideally this should be done prior to full boot but that might not be possible. Other phones have diagnostics routines embedded that you fire up by holding a series of keys at power-up.

Before the anal army tells me that this is not the topic of the thread or gives me the SMOMR to "Feel free to...". again I know that.
I'm just killin' time by posting in the only relevant thread available to me now on these boards.
The fact is, until some of us have a phone in hand, we are just part of the background noise here.
For almost 3 years I've gotten used to reading posts from some of you guys.

... others, meh.

Cool idea. We could ask Nokia if they want to use this kind of quality test where the units are assembled. It seems they're currently lacking this type of application and voted for "Solution#2: The community should do it"