I would definitely encourage you *not* to upgrade. In addition to the
touch-screen problems already mentioned, my OS2008 'upgrade' has had
the following disastrous effect on my Igo Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard:
1. Based on random criteria I haven't been able to figure out, the
Bluetooth keyboard sometimes activates the word-completion
feature used with the stylus keyboard. This is so slow (I type
75 words per minute on a kinesis so probably half that on the
stowaway) that the keyboard becomes useless because the N800
can't keep up.
Try turning off text prediction and word completion. It speeds it up remarkably. It does seem kinda random when it's turned on though.
2. THE KILLER: Once I have connected a bluetooth keyboard, the
on-screen stylus keyboard and thumb keyboard no longer work.
Even when the BT keyboard is put away and turned off, attempts to
use the stylus keyboard produce only a black bar at the bottom of
the screen with the letters Abc at the far right. The only cure
is to reboot the machine.
The bar with Abc is the text prediction. It will go away if you do the above. Staggering waste of space, isn't it?
I can't tell you how angry I am about this. For me one of the
great benefits of the N800 is that it's always on, always
connected. I mostly use the stylus but can easily connect a
keyboard if I have to write a long email. Now that's all gone;
every time I think about the external keyboard I have to think
about whether I'm going to give up all my external state and
reboot.
If these problems aren't fixed in the next release of OS2008 I'm just
going to punt and go back to OS2007, which at least worked.
Don't just stew, vote for the bug here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2850 Let Nokia know this is happening to more people and you're not pleased. I can't believe we have only 5 votes for this killer bug.
There is a possible workaround too - turn on your bluetooth icon in the taskbar. Leave it on... It may not be a 100% cure but it seems to help a lot for most people.
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