Yeah. That device came with a stylus for a good reason. I think my main contribution to the N900 software stack was a bug report I dealt with during N800/N810

Yeah. That device came with a stylus for a good reason. I think my main contribution to the N900 software stack was a bug report I dealt with during N800/N810 development cycle. I dove deep into the stack to understand and explain exactly why a certain annoying usability snag (dreadful UI latency in media player) was not possible to fix without ripping up larger parts of the UI toolkit layer. After my dissection the bug was eventually marked as WONTFIX, with a remarkable note: "we do not dare fix this bug". For N900 that part of the toolkit was rewritten. As a result the latency bug was finally possible to tackle, and the large arrows in N900 media player were actually pretty responsive. My guess is that whoever in their UI team had had the bright idea to specify which exact GTK widgets were to be used for the navigation buttons was either told off or removed from their effective decision chain. And I actually used N900 for some time as my mobile media terminal. It worked really well. (Coworker got its GPS chip working reliably without a SIM card, but that feature was never released. To the very end, GPS state machine in N900 required AGPS to expose its position, even if the chip itself had managed to get an accurate fix on your location.)