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hi maemo community,
this is my first post here written with my n900

i have an idea for a new app, so here it is:
i miss hardware buttons for starting and end up calls.
so maybe it is possible if a call arrives to use volume down key to accept the call or volume up key to block the call.
and if the call ends i can end up the call with by pressing volume up key.
i dont know if this would be possible or someone is already working on it.
i think such an app would be great for the usability on incoming calls.

greetings from germany ( so cold in here)

May I ask why? What would be the benefit of that? I mean, what's wrong with those huge green button on the screen? How would those tiny HW buttons be more practical?

IMHO, some of the requests are beyond my mind.

Well basically as it's quite hard to tell where the on-screen buttons are.

While I don't want hw buttons in particular, I would like a larger answer/cancel button so that it can be pressed without needing to look at the screen.

the benefit is, you can feel hardware buttons.
so when i'm in car and want to answer a call i have to look on the n900. with hardware buttons i can answer the call blind, because i can feel where the "green" button is.

Sometimes it happens to me that the phone rings and the display is to slow, sometimes i have to klick 2 or more times on the green button.

Do you understand what my "problem" is?

well, they can be only on two places, depends on orientation. My phone is only on portrait so I really don't have any problems.

bullrin, i feel your pain.

ive had that problem too, with the screen remaining blank, especially if you take the phone out of your pocket. I'd appreciate hardware buttons, heck even one will do, for answering the call. say, pressing the camera button while the lens cover is closed answers the call? the camera button is most conveniently placed one i guess...

Hmm, I wonder if it would be possible to overlay a fullscreen window over the call UI, then one could add two buttons that take up the whole screen, upper half would be answer, lower half would be end, for me, at least, that would allow me to answer without looking at the device.

And in that case, how would you know who is calling? To me much more important then HW keys.
But I have been using TS devices for 15 years so I'm used to all that (dis)advantages and I can adjust myself to it.

Maybe you can ask when you answer????

Well, and what if that's your boss calling when you are gone fishing?