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KapCaveman	2010-05-13 , 18:48
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok

Your N900 won't help you pick up women. Another negative.

It conceivably could if they are a bit arty I have seen some nice work from brushes on iPhone but the pressure sensitivity on a phone paint app must be fairly unique.

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9000	2010-05-13 , 18:49
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok

Your N900 won't help you pick up women. Another negative.

It's even worse with iPhone, chance is that a woman know iPhone better than you, and that hurts your self-esteem and ego, badly.

(BASE ON REAL STORY)

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	Descalzo	2010-05-13 , 18:57
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Originally Posted by nosa101

If you have a mac, you can sync your itunes playlists with your n900 using Nokia Multimedia transfer

You could try GoGadget for syncing too.

Wait, what?

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etuoyo	2010-05-13 , 19:01
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Originally Posted by giecsar

etuoyo, you really need to remove the parts where it's about your personal preferences only if you want this to be a reference for those wishing to buy the N900 (and possibly you will also stop receiving negative replies).

Let me know those you are referring to and I will change. Don't know any I have put down that is personal preference.

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etuoyo	2010-05-13 , 19:08
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Originally Posted by schettj

While I agree that several of the OP issues are either "by design" or "personal experience" it isn't a bad list. Once 1.2 is out, we should strike out the resolved items. Here are my comments

- general - number the list from the top, not i, ii per each subheading, for easy comments Also, since this is for NEW purchases we should be assuming FW 1.1 at least, old issues resolved since then need not be rehashed here.

Cheers. Will renumber as suggested. Also agree things should definitely be crossed off the list once they have been fixed. As for the screen scratching issue I have edited from saying the N900 screen scratches easily to saying it scratches more easily than capacitive screens.

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nosa101	2010-05-13 , 19:11
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Originally Posted by Descalzo

Wait, what?

confusion?

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	Descalzo	2010-05-13 , 19:21
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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.

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attila77	2010-05-13 , 19:38
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Originally Posted by geneven

The consensus among early users of the N900 (before screen protection became nearly universal IMHO) was that the N900 screen was lots easier to scratch than the earlier tablets.

This does not match my experience. Scratchwise, my N900 screen looks a lot better than my N810 screen after the same amount of time, I blame this on the N810 pouch and heavier stylus usage. I'm keen on attributing the 'easy to scratch consensus' about the N900 to a certain blog post about a preview unit, not real-life experiences. Then again, 'easy' is a very subjective term and it certainly does not have the N97 anti-scratch-coating.

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zanzibar2	2010-05-13 , 19:39
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(ii) You cannot have custom ringtones for each caller.

Yes you can.

I'm trying to be constructive in all my response, but I just still couldn't help amused by some of your comments. My apology if that sounds offensive to you.

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

Last edited by zanzibar2; 2010-05-13 at 20:04.

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etuoyo	2010-05-13 , 19:43
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Don't know how to put my replies within your posts the way you have done so have put them down in CAPS. Thanks alot for the input though. Very helpful.

Originally Posted by Andre Klapper

Just some comments to a few points here, or linking to corresponding bug reports for the records and other interested folks...
In general: Thanks for the list. An interesting summary, and something worth to forward to some Nokia "deciders".

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6334 was fixed already in a public release, but there are still reasons left, e.g. see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8787 .

MINE STILL RESTARTS.

For me it's never been a couple of seconds, but less than a second. Current behaviour is because of performance (not updating the screen when it is not shown anyway).

WILL CHANGE TO SAY VERY BRIEFLY

If this refers to "officially supported" audio formats this sounds like a bug. Feel free to file a ticket in bugs.maemo.org and attach an example music file (or send it via email to me in case of copyright issues as bugs.maemo.org is totally public).

Again, sounds like a bug. If you see any pattern a ticket is welcome.

Planned for Harmattan it seems, plus 3rd party software is being worked on - see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890

HAVE EDITED TO SAY 3RD PARTY APP IS IN THE WORKS

In most cases it seems to be related to other desktop widgets installed. See the status/progress in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5894 and https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9192 .

HAVE AMENDED TO SAY THIS

I asked in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10065 to report it in maemo.org Brainstorm but cannot find the ticket.

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5502 .
Feel free to vote for it by clicking "Vote for this bug".

Uh? Any quotes/URLs, or a bug number for this one?
I think I haven't heard of it before (or I cannot remember)...

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=128

If that's true it sounds like a huge problem to me. Haven't heard that before. Again, care to file a ticket in bugs.maemo.org?

See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7772 .
Patch is being tested internally...