I like the adaptable connector idea as well. But why does the cable do the negotiating and not the connected device? More than likely the device and the phone will still have to negotiate if just to ensure that the device is in fact a working one.

I wasn't googling for current advertisements, I was reading stuff from 2007 (and checking images and screenshots). But perhaps somewhere did exist an ad with turn-by-turn. The thing is, I haven't seen that complain before and I used to play a lot with that device while it was current. (And I kept it for reading books long after its hardware (which wasn't that powerful to begin with) was outdated, because the screen was rather eye friendly.)

A close friend was on a few working trips to the U.S. He described the way of working inefficient and hazardous to health. During one such trip they were literally prevented from leaving in reasonable hours, which reduced their efficiency after the first day. He got lucky and had a meeting elsewhere on fourth day and managed (with the permission from his boss abroad) to just rest during the evening. The next day he managed to solve several of their problems, but the local boss was still furious when he heard that he had been resting.

Where was this advertised? No review I could find mentions that they were expecting the navigation to be free. And I certainly didn't. I did some googling and did find one occurrence of an ad where it talks about GPS, which it indeed has, since I used Maemo Mapper quite successfully several times.

Without a-gps enabled, getting a GPS lock was annoyingly slow, thankfully most hotels had wifi.

I'm a bit surprised, but I guess it wouldn't be a good for Nokia to have their maps in other devices with serious limitations. Might make sense to build on quality maps everywhere and have just a bit more on their own devices. Perhaps even helpful for their brand which doesn't seem to be doing so well especially in the U.S.

Years ago I got myself the N810, managed to charge it just now. Seems that I can actually access the maps. Navigation, not so much, but well, I didn't expect to. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=10744

Did they license the offline navigation?

Right, 'we' get more dropped calls because antennas are actually getting worse as they are being developed. I've got a bridge to sell you and it is a lot better than the new ones that are being developed.

I expanded my unscientific poll to workplace chat. 'Max once a year', 'Sometimes in an area of really bad coverage, but never elsewhere', 'what, a failed function call'.

"Each generation of smartphones actually has more dropped calls"

That would be a no. I don't have any dropped calls. Admittedly I don't talk very often while driving or going by train, but when I do, my phone and the network seem to work just fine.

They already have the maps and you can download them for offline navigation. As in, you can download the whole country and do the routing and searches offline.

I kind of like Obama, but merely is perhaps not the right word.

Sorry, not an expert, but you might find this article (about AMD Steamroller) interesting. At least check the short "Looking Forward: High Density Libraries". They are rebuilding hand-drawn diagrams to be more efficient. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6201/amd-details-its-3rd-gen-steamroller-architecture/2

I had Avast on one computer a while ago. That was actually quite unobtrusive. That or MSE would be my choice.

Or just trolls.

Yeah, I'm sure Microsoft pays and keeps paying for negative publicity. I'm betting those are created by some Microsoft hating trolls. And based on replies they seem to be quite successful.