I am not sure this is the best place to post this information. But
hopefully somebody at Nokia will be listening.
After almost 3 months of use I have to say the N800 is the best PDA I
have ever owned. I just came back from a 10 days trip where it became
my main computer, and I am very happy with it.
These are some comments that perhaps could be addressed to make the
next generation of the N800 an even better product.
** Mute button. When the alarms kick in it takes several seconds to
start be able to silence it (or when you remove the
headphones). Sometimes that is embarrassing, like when you are in
a meeting.
** Separate the <+> <fullscreen> <-> buttons a little
** Make the screen of a harder material (perhaps glass like the iphone). I have light
scratches on it already.
** Thumb keyboard. I am not exactly how to reproduce it, but sometimes it inserts repeated
copies of sections of the text.
** PDF reader. Allow me to open more than one document at the same time.
** Web browser: it needs cut-and-paste
** Nokia's Image browser "Images". It is a pain to zoom-in and scroll
the image. I was trying to view a subway map with it and it was a
total pain. When one changes to fullscreen the image gets resized
automatically. In my opinion the image browser should behave more
like the web browser, allowing to pan around the image with the
stylus.
** Soft-power off mode. I have enabled it with a long press of the on-button.
Unfortunately it does not disable the keys. It would be nice if it
did, except for a long-press of the on-botton again.
** File manager.
*** When I move files from one directory to another I'd like the file manager
to stay in the source directory, not the destination one. Perhaps an option will
do.
*** Support for different font sizes.
The following are comments regarding third party applications:
** Mapper: One thing missing is the ability to goto to a designated
POI. The only current option is to go to the nearest.
** GPE-calendar.
*** It messes appointments when one changes timezone. In my opinion appointments
should stay at the same time, even if the time zone changes.
*** It needs to update the end-time to be at the very least after the start-time.
It is cumbersome to have to change the date twice: once for the
start time, and once for the end time.
*** It badly needs a search function.
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Daniel M. German
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http://silvernegative.com/
dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca
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