On 13 Jan 2007, at 11:33, Neil MacLeod wrote: > Nicola Larosa wrote: >> Simon Budig wrote: >>> I believe Nokia is missing a psychological factor here. Putting the >>> cover on the 770 allows the user to forget about it. He finished >>> using >>> it and it is kind of stored away safely, it won't distract him. >> That's exactly how I feel about it. > Me too, and I'm getting the impression from this thread that Nokia > are trying to insist the customer is wrong in this case (pun not > intended!) :) > > I'm happy to be always ON at home, always ON when I'm on the train > into the office but when I get off that train I want to be OFF! To > achieve this flexibility I want/need a quick (and I mean really > quick - no faffing about with multiple button presses and/or menu > options) way to put the N800 into the same state of slumber the 770 > goes into when the cover is put on. The current "Lock > touchscreen..." option leaves the screen iluminating the inside of > my pocket, and "Soft Poweroff" hack doesn't disable WiFi/BT. Also, > I want to avoid using the "Power" button to instigate the "cover- > on" event as the Power button is not designed for regular use. > > To this end I've raised bug #943 (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/ > show_bug.cgi?id=943) but it seems the Nokia devs (or is it Nokia > marketing?) are pretty hard core about telling us how *we* should > be using *our* new friend, so I'm not entirely sure where this will > get us. :( Absolutely nowhere would be my guess. I raised two bugs in december 2005 about the email app and they're still not fixed. Considering one of them renders the mail app unusable (message removal from another system is not recognised by the app) I'd say your chances of getting a fix are close to none. Andy
