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2009-11-22
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#112
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Originally Posted by YoDude
Don't mind sr1329. He (it?) hates everything. I think if Nokia bought Apple and started selling the iPhone, he'd find a way to hate it, thanks to the hatred of Nokia he's come to have in the last few years.
There is a thread on Howard Forums now with the first impressions of a new user >> http://howardforums.com/showthread.p...3&page=1&pp=15
That's not to say he doesn't have valid concerns, I just think he blows them out of proportion. Perhaps he just has higher standards than me.
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2009-11-22
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#113
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Ovi map is horrible.... It laggs so badly that it's almost impossible to use.
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2009-11-22
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@ A place with no mountains
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#114
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Originally Posted by qole
What do you think about the posts in this discussion?
New users who have been exposed to neither the tablets nor the iPhone will be simply blown away by the N900. iPhone users will come in with a lot of wrong preconceptions, and so may be unhappy with the N900 at first, but if they stick with it long enough to get used to the Maemo approach to doing things, I think they'll find it to be equal if not better than the Apple offering. But there's that initial learning hump to get over, and I don't know how many long-time iPhone users would want to bother with it, since the N900 really isn't an "iPhone killer", only an "iPhone competitor" or peer...
Honestly I don't know what an iPhone killer would look like. What kind of features would make people drop their iPhones and rush to the new platform? Nothing that's currently on the market, in my opinion...
http://www.amazon.com/does-this-comp...store=wireless
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2009-11-22
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#115
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GPSfix is usually done in some seconds. If I have moved several hundred kilometers and not used the GPS in several days it takes some tens of seconds. It's pretty fast and accurate, but you have to have either wlan or mobile data connection on for AGPS. Witout network connection it takes very long time.
Battery life depends much on your use. Usually in my daily use the battery holds about 16 hours. But in very light use I have had 4 and half days usage. And in very hard usage the battery drains in 8 hours (but very seldom).
Battery life depends much on your use. Usually in my daily use the battery holds about 16 hours. But in very light use I have had 4 and half days usage. And in very hard usage the battery drains in 8 hours (but very seldom).
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2009-11-22
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#116
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Originally Posted by ewan
Please, please go and post that in his thread!
I was particularly amused by this bit of his post:I actually work on (a small fraction of) the LHC computing grid, and I confidently expect to spend more time on my N900 SSHed into my cluster than I will talking on it as a phone.
The N900 probably isn't the device for everybody, but I'm pretty sure it's the device for me.
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Useful links for newcomers: New members say hello , New users start here, Community subforum, Beginners' wiki page, Maemo5 101, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Did you know Meego.com has forums too?
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2009-11-22
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Originally Posted by ARJWright
I've followed long threads with him commenting in them over there at
While sr1329 can be negative, his impressions are usually directly opposite of the absolute-positive opinions that many (at HoFo) have towards Nokia's products.
Dude knows his stuff and frankly usually tells it like it is.
howardforums before and he is pretty critical of Nokia overall.
He likes to try to point out lots of things wrong. At this point in time i think it is the wrong thing to do when it comes to this new device N900 if it is done in a way to discourage people from buying it.
The best thing you can do right now is provide feedback to this community and all of us will work together to make it a better phone/tablet/phablet/midphone whatever you want to call it because it is open source OS.
Open source=we all work to make it better
Last edited by aironeous; 2009-11-22 at 10:46.
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2009-11-22
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Originally Posted by stamenkd
Hi Just read your post and it made me smile, I just had to register so I could comment. I've had load of touch screen phones and non of them capacitive like the iPhone. Let me tell you it all about the software not the screen type. The N900 is really going to be a mass market thing, its for people who what function or form. Yes we care about design, but to be honest if you want form or function, but an iPhone. Sorry I got into a bit of a rant for a second. Back to screens I'm currently using a SE P1i as a personal and a SE P990 for work. I loaded a blog and news app a couple months ago which had a touch interface. I looks like a iPhone port. What is intreasting about it is the way you stroking the screen works. The same as the iPhone without the multi touch. If your going to base your purchase on the screen technolgy alone you better buy an iPhone.
How are you finding the screen responsiveness, say compared to an iPhone? I played with my friend's HTC Touch HD the other day which was my first experience with a resistive screen and found it horrible. Now I'm half considering cancelling my order.
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2009-11-22
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#119
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I want the best hardware, I want flexiblity and I want the best user experience. I like gadgets, but I'm not a programmer.
I read sr1329's tale and I believe sr1328 does him/herself a disservice by using very semantically loaded words, and right off the bat more or less dismissing the N900.
That said, my first thought when reading sr1329, was "Nokia, pick this up, learn from it, adapt." If there are criticisms and comments that could be applied to offer a better device, or a better interface, well use it. I believe this goes for every critical review. Why argue with it? Just look upon it as a potential to improve. Whatever sr1329's agenda, pick up the suggestions, address them, progress and develop.
If Nokia wants to dominate the pocketable computer segment, enabling consumers to use the devices in a streamlined way, they will have to adapt or else competition will kill the company. I guess that's why they're going to launch Maemo 6, with capacitive display etc. I don't care for capacitive display, but the great majority out there seem to. So Nokia has to adapt.
Otherwise they run the risk of being marginalized into the segment of high tech users, a segment that will be way too small for Nokia to survive.
Last edited by Gadgety; 2009-11-22 at 22:48.
I read sr1329's tale and I believe sr1328 does him/herself a disservice by using very semantically loaded words, and right off the bat more or less dismissing the N900.
That said, my first thought when reading sr1329, was "Nokia, pick this up, learn from it, adapt." If there are criticisms and comments that could be applied to offer a better device, or a better interface, well use it. I believe this goes for every critical review. Why argue with it? Just look upon it as a potential to improve. Whatever sr1329's agenda, pick up the suggestions, address them, progress and develop.
If Nokia wants to dominate the pocketable computer segment, enabling consumers to use the devices in a streamlined way, they will have to adapt or else competition will kill the company. I guess that's why they're going to launch Maemo 6, with capacitive display etc. I don't care for capacitive display, but the great majority out there seem to. So Nokia has to adapt.
Otherwise they run the risk of being marginalized into the segment of high tech users, a segment that will be way too small for Nokia to survive.
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2009-11-22
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#120
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Originally Posted by MountainX
I'm uncomfortable with command line and to become more comfortable I have to learn it's language and syntax. I belong to the "group of folks" you refer to.
In my opinion, that is actually a really good way to deliver help, even for newbies. Granted, the new user has to change their expectations a bit, but if they do, they will find that pasting commands is easier and more reliable than following a (usually very long) sequence of images that say things like "click here".
What would be ideal, IMO, is a way to ensure the commands are from a reliable source. And they need to be explained -- not at the expert level, but in language a newbie can get value from. If those things are done consistently, help in the form of commands is great.
I cannot predict if this method of providing help will ever become comfortable to the group of folks you are referring to, but if they gave it a chance, I doubt they would want help any other way (provided some caveats like I mentioned are followed).
This said, I totally agree with you. I could easily adapt to receiving command line instructions, cut and paste etc, knowing that the commands will help me accomplish what I need. As I would follow instructions, I also completely agree "reliable source" becomes very important.
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I was worried about this. The previous tablets had the task switcher in the bottom... i thought it was a bad idea. There is a brainstorm proposal for this please feel free to vote if you think it is a problem.