Introducing Neo900

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Post by seba_dos1 » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 12:46 PM UTC

Re: Introducing Neo900

#2

Post by robin_reala » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:33 PM UTC

Your €500-700 gets you a replacement motherboard for your existing N900. Thinking about it, it’s not a bad solution: most people this is aimed at will already have a N900 they remember fondly. Pity you’ll still be locked to a resistive touch screen though.

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by tromp » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

I stopped reading at "3.5" TFT, 800x480, resistive"

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by TeamMCS » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:35 PM UTC

If I could get a product at the end of it this would be fantastic and my ideal device. I'm glad it's much more achievable than Canonical's approach.

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by regularfry » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:42 PM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #2

Your €500-700 gets you a replacement motherboard for your existing N900. Thinking about it, it’s not a bad solution: most people this is aimed at will already have a N900 they remember fondly. Pity you’ll still be locked to a resistive touch screen though.

The resistive screen on the N900 is excellent. Better than some capacitives I've used.

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by regularfry » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:43 PM UTC

tromp wrote: post #3

I stopped reading at "3.5" TFT, 800x480, resistive"

Why?

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by kybernetyk » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:45 PM UTC

regularfry wrote: post #5

robin_reala wrote: post #2

Your €500-700 gets you a replacement motherboard for your existing N900. Thinking about it, it’s not a bad solution: most people this is aimed at will already have a N900 they remember fondly. Pity you’ll still be locked to a resistive touch screen though.

The resistive screen on the N900 is excellent . Better than some capacitives I've used.

I on the other hand hated that screen. My N900 was a great device but every time I had to scroll I cursed the screen.

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by captainmuon » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 1:56 PM UTC

I wonder whether this has an open-source* baseband/firmware, and open-source graphics drivers. If not, it's not better than, say, a Nexus 4, which you can unlock and put custom software on it (e.g. Ubuntu Phone, I'm sure you could port Meego/Maemo/whatever it's called nowadays). The Nexus of course has vastly superior hardware.

If I buy such a tinkerphone as this, I want to be able to play with it at all levels. For example: Imagine the mobile connection doesn't work, but it still displays the GSM network's name? So it still transmits some data.... I want to be able to see where it hangs. E.g. do my packets reach the other station? Do I get garbled responses, or no responses at all? ... I want to be able to access the audio stream programmatically, which is not possible on 99% of android phones. And so on.

Mobile technology is such a black box, due to closed firmware. I wonder what amazing things will be possible if people can hack their phones' radios.

(* With focus on "I can compile and modify everything myself", don't care too much about license politics.)

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by deviltry » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 2:07 PM UTC

God damn, N900 was the best smartphone ever. I'm glad I'm not alone thinking like this. And boy I'm glad there are people who actually do things.

Re: Introducing Neo900

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Post by programminggeek » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 2:08 PM UTC

It looks thick. I don't know why, but it makes me not at all interested. Also, what was so special about the N900 and is that relevant in the market today? I'm genuinely curious, I don't know much about the N900.