Originally Posted by shiny

Vodafone UK in West London (Hammersmith, Notting Hill Gate) here and it's 3 or 3.5G all the way.

Up in East Anglia, mind you, signal is hilariously non-existent, and you can just about get 2G if you sit very still for a while or lean out of a window.

Originally Posted by cjard

Yes, but that's because there's nothing actually IN east anglia
The whole county is probably covered by one cell..

Originally Posted by cjard

...The diddy keyboard, however, is not one of these amazing features.. I'm hoping for a 3x4 dial pad and T9 style predictive

Originally Posted by cjard

I had this misgiving too, at first until I learned to look at the N900 not as the evolution of everything Nokia has ever done for the mobile phones, but instead as their attempt at making a portable computer that also happens to make phone calls..

..yes, I know i bough it primarily on the misunderstanding that it's a phone and the initial diappointment that it's not actually as accomplished a phone as the 5800 or N97 but it does have many amazing computer features that I've now warmed to and these make up for the phone side of things (as in what I've come to expect from a phone) being a bit weak

The diddy keyboard, however, is not one of these amazing features.. I'm hoping for a 3x4 dial pad and T9 style predictive

Originally Posted by Fargus

Never underestimate the ability of carriers staff to miss the obvious! One of the other guys on here had a similar problem with O2 - they went through lots of mad frantic checking on his account and missed the point that he had been given a 2G sim!

Originally Posted by frazzl3

I do agree with you though the other features do make up for the lack of functionality and options that I was so used too in previous Nokia's, but I still expected Nokia's flagship model to one up its previous models - maybe next time hey or maybe in the next firmware update. That being said, still the best phone I have ever used in my life and I still don't regret the buy, multitasking FTW!

The 'diddy' keyboard though I love, I find it very erm... cute. And I find it very easy to use to be honest! (no I don't have small hands lol)

Originally Posted by Fargus

Why would you want T9 when you have the qwerty keyboard to type it properly? It's a lot quicker to type like that. It would be nice as an option for text entry using the touchscreen pad though for some use cases, automated call lines being one.

Originally Posted by cjard

No way are my two thumbs, pecking on those tiny keys, faster than me using predictive text on e.g. a nokia 5800

The 5800 had a fantastic feature as of v40 whereby holding the phone in portrait showed a keyboard:

1.... 2abc 3def
4ghi 5jkl 6mno
7pqrs 8tuv 9wxyz

and did predictive text (3663 -> "food", 3663* -> "done" etc)

When you came to a work your knew wouldnt spell, rotate the phone landscape and get a full qwerty keyboard, type, rotate back


T9 predictive speed will for me always be greater than tiny qwerty, just from the size of my fingers and the accuracy with which I can hence type

More than anything else, on this phone, I'd like to see that 3x4 dialpad and predictive text for text entry.. Ive practically stopped texting on this because text entry is so cumbersome..

Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK

That's odd, because my T-Mobile SIM is ancient and came with a 2G only device, but it does 3G fine. I thought ALL SIM cards went 3G enabled once 3G handsets came out, as it would cost more to have different types when they are backwards compatible anyway.
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