N8 Loudspeaker placement - who has done this!!!!!...

Question

The placement of the loudspeaker is the worst place to put it into the N8 case!
When it is lying on a leather couch you hardly can hear the ringing!
Who tested the prototype of N8? 

Answer 1

Everything is bad if you seek for special situations where something does not work as good as expected.
I am not 100 % satisfied with the speaker placement, too - if I encounter special situations where the placement proves to be not optimized - e. g. if placing the N8 on a soft surface.
But in most other situations, the speaker placement turns out to be not that bad:
If you want to listen to music LOUD, the best way to achieve this is to place the speaker right close to a hard, reflective surface. This way you get more volume than with any other placement.
And: The primary use of the speaker is to act as a loudspeaker for speakerphone purposes. In this case, you'll naturally place the handset with the display up on a given surface. Works just perfect and far better than many other handsfree solutions.
So try to be a bit honest: There ARE situations where the speaker placement muffles the sound; but there are far more situations where that placement really shines.