Linus got a Nexus One • Hacker News Board

Re: Linus got a Nexus One

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Post by bad_user » Sun, Feb 07, 2010, 10:36 AM UTC

herval wrote: post #5

amichail wrote: post #4

I wasn't enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. Is pinch-to-zoom really that important?

isn't pinch-to-zoom already available on the iphone for, like, 3 years...?

It is, but Apple is using patents to prevent others from using these gestures. I'm actually surprised they activated this on the Android.

Re: Linus got a Nexus One

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Post by buro9 » Sun, Feb 07, 2010, 12:40 PM UTC

cdibona wrote: post #9

ig1 wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Google didn't send him one as a freebie

Believe me, he didn't need to buy one.

But it's a lot nicer that he did.

I much prefer hearing that people were not given things to make a good review, but chose to purchase one and loved it. The latter makes me want to buy one, the former puts me off a little bit as I can't be sure that the good review is untainted by the freebie.

Re: Linus got a Nexus One

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Post by ez77 » Sun, Feb 07, 2010, 9:12 PM UTC

tumult wrote: post #17

randallsquared wrote: post #10

As someone said on the comments to the blog, it seems surprising that he didn't buy a N900 instead. It's far closer to being a full Linux machine than the Nexus One.

Sometimes you want a phone and not a really bad small PC.

I got one N900 and I don't see why it's a bad small PC, let alone a really bad one. Granted, most interesting tasks involve accessing a remote machine via ssh, but you can still toy with (for example) ipython, the shell and, in general, a good number of Debian packages. What is bad about it? (Pricing shouldn't qualify as part of the diagnosis.)

If anything, I'd say it's a so-so phone =).