Michael Thompson wrote: > 2009/12/14 moylan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > but if you want to do python or any other scripting then you will > need one with a keyboard as python still won't take a bt keyboard. > > theat really leave the original g1, milestone or the geeksphone one. > > > Or the Nokia N900, running Linux and Python, PySide\PyQt etc. i'll never buy another nokia. had a 3310, 3650, n70, e61, 770, e61i and finally an e71. good devices till i got the e71. the last few nokias have needed firmware updates before they became useable. crashing mostly. however the e71 added a few new problems. * the global search took 20 seconds or so to start. before i could do a search. really annoying as i kept all my notes on my nokias. having to wait that amount of time 3-4 times a day when the program decided to reset itself really annoyed me. especially when the previous 'inferior' search was instant. * flimsy construction. the early nokias were tanks that could take a lot of abuse. dropped the e71 less than a metre onto carpet and the keyboard popped out. * 2.5mm audio jack on the side was the most awkward stupid place to put an audio jack. the crappy pop port was easier to use on other devices.
but for me the killer was the camera click. the 3650 was silent. the n70 added a click that could easily be turned off. the e61i made the click a little more akward to find to turn off but it worked. this method worked on the e71 until i updated it in january this year. i hate noisy devices. especially cameras. i take lots of pics of cats and cats when they hear that click are gone before you can get a second photo. i hate when i took a screen shot on site or at work that people would look to see were the click was from. there was no warning about nokia adding an unremoveable click. so as far as i am concerned nokia broke my E400 phone. it was an unusable piece of junk after that click was turned on. finally gave it to a python developer who does some apps for symbian. he laughed at my annoyance over the camera click at first (it only seems to bug about 10% of users) but mentioned how annoying it was when he took a picture in a book shop of a book that he was interested in. will not buy a device over which i have no say in the firmware (no palm pre fro me withs its mandatory updates). will never trust or recommend nokia again. pity as i had been looking forward to the n97 or even the n900. swapped to my iphone for the rest of this year. bought an android device (htc hero). prefer android but waiting for one with a keyboard. most people reckon i was bonkers for having such a stance on the camera click but i saw it as a stupid law brought in in america and the far east by knee jerk politicians. both my iphone and hero take silent pictures. why the hell were nokia doing this? lots of people made suggestions as to how to turn it off. none of them worked. the only way would be to reflash it back to an earlier firmware. it would have taken a few days to set up. i'm not wasting my time fixing something that should not have been broken. i used to recommend /do free tech support for nokias. i reckon about 10-12 high end nokias were sold every year because of me. that's over now. screw nokia. /rant moylan -- Eagles may soar but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
