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#192
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Originally Posted by qole
It isn't just about carrying it, qole. A battery pack doesn't take maintenance. I don't have to update the software, figure out why it isn't booting, worry about battery life. It isn't merely that I don't want to carry something. I don't want to carry (and maintain) another COMPUTER.
If someone writes the code, I'm sure someone will be able to test it. But rigging up a power injector or powered hub for just a USB key is going to be pretty lame, and carrying a hub and battery pack around is almost as bad as an extra tablet....
If the TESTMODE hack works I'll be a happy guy. Does anyone know what a script to activate USB Testmode would look like?
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#193
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Well maybe there wasn't space available to do that, and there were time constrains, as pointed out various times throughout this thread.
There will always be people unhappy with some things about the device. But there are also many features which are applauded and make happy customers. You don't hear those voices too often though, but they're there, and when Nokia N900 ships they will be heard
Last edited by allnameswereout; 2009-09-22 at 00:26.
Originally Posted by range
HDMI, pigeon protocol (RFC 1149), and remote detonator for battery!
Plus Firewire-800, ExpressCard 34 and ESATA!
Originally Posted by NvyUs
People have complained about
when all the newbies was complaining about no portrait support out the box lot of the older community members was there slaughtering them.
now theres a feature missing what affects a lot of them more its ok to complain about n900 now hmmm. Theres a little bit of double standards around here.
- Lack of complete portrait mode support
- Screen size downgraded
- Lack official of BlueTooth DUN
- Non-optional 3G
- Non-optional keyboard
- Focus on finger/touch instead of stylus
- Lack of capacitive screen
- Lack of multi touch
- Lack of digital compass
- Price
- Lack of 2 USB ports, 2 SD ports
- Lack of USB host mode / OTG
- Lack of DRM ()
- Waiting...
There will always be people unhappy with some things about the device. But there are also many features which are applauded and make happy customers. You don't hear those voices too often though, but they're there, and when Nokia N900 ships they will be heard
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#194
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Alright, this thread is starting to suck now.
How about we let it sit until there is a solution. Going back and forth between "Dealbreaker! How dare they?" and "We don't need it, there are alternatives!" and "Let's wait and see!" is getting repetitive.
A moratorium until people have the device! A moratorium, I say!
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How about we let it sit until there is a solution. Going back and forth between "Dealbreaker! How dare they?" and "We don't need it, there are alternatives!" and "Let's wait and see!" is getting repetitive.
A moratorium until people have the device! A moratorium, I say!
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#195
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout
Like mine. I am a HUGE fanboy. This is the first issue that has really gotten to me.
There will always be people unhappy with some things about the device. But there are also many features which are applauded and make happy customers. You don't hear those voices too often though, but they're there, and when Nokia N900 ships they will be heard
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#196
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Originally Posted by NvyUs
The thing is that YOU can fix that yourself by writing code, or failing that, someone else can. The same is true of MMS support, but we are totally reliant on Nokia to get the hardware right, and it seems that in this respect they have failed.
when all the newbies was complaining about no portrait support out the box lot of the older community members was there slaughtering them.
now theres a feature missing what affects a lot of them more its ok to complain about n900 now hmmm. Theres a little bit of double standards around here.
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#197
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Originally Posted by Matan
I'm suggesting a reasonable workaround to a poor situation. Take it or leave it.
I hope you realise that you suggest replacing a 2$ device with an 80$ device. I know that people that spend 600 Euro on a cellular phone seem like they have more money then sense, but it still looks a bit over the top.
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#198
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout
Well maybe there wasn't space available to do that, and there were time constrains, as pointed out various times throughout this thread.
HDMI, pigeon protocol (RFC 1149), and remote detonator for battery!
People have complained about
And so on, and so on. There is always something to complain about. Such as complaining about complaining or "..but does it run Linux"...
- Lack of complete portrait mode support
- Screen size downgraded
- Lack official of BlueTooth DUN
- Non-optional 3G
- Non-optional keyboard
- Focus on finger/touch instead of stylus
- Lack of capacitive screen
- Lack of multi touch
- Lack of digital compass
- Price
- Lack of 2 USB ports, 2 SD ports
- Lack of USB host mode / OTG
- Lack of DRM (
- Waiting...
There will always be people unhappy with some things about the device. But there are also many features which are applauded and make happy customers. You don't hear those voices too often though, but they're there, and when Nokia N900 ships they will be heard
>>>> the device / phone to be sold in the EU.
>>>> POLITICIANS have decided on one standard way of charging: MicroUSB.
What if someone wants to use the USB HOST (for let's say reading an USB flash memory or a CD/DVD drive) and at the same time the device needs charging?
Nokia should have think from the beginning to put 2 USB ports on this so-called "mobile computer"...
I want to ADD something to the list above:
Can the second USB port be USB HOST *and* pen sharpener instead of being USB charger?
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Originally Posted by range
That agreement is not legally binding, and there are exceptions allowed for unusual devices, I would think usb host as a feature, which can't be implemented currently with usb charging would qualify.
That won't work if you want the device to be a phone *and* to be sold in the EU. Device manufacturers have decided on one standard way of charging: MicroUSB.
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#200
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Originally Posted by BruceL
Politics defined by the USB standardization guys.
They could have made it work, but for politics.
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While usb host is not important to many of people, it is an absolute deal breaker for some of us, whereas I can't really see that being true for usb charging.