I never developed for the Android. Is Android a good platform for tinkering/hacking? Maybe its already too mature? No low-hanging fruits?
Introducing Neo900
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#102If MAEMO consortium is run by Nokia and Nokia is owned my MS. What are the chances to get a decent product out of this?
Maemo is run by community, Nokia abbandoned it completely some time ago.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
Because we are all spoiled with high resolution, capacitive touch displays.
Wonder if hybrid touchscreens are possible without sacrificing display quality too much. Capacitive for multitouch finger-based input, resistive for non-multitouch pixel-accurate stylus input.
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#104I like the phone, curious though, were there no new phones they could have taken the photo of? That one looks so scuffed, as though it has been in someones pocket for months.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has a keyboard. That makes it infinitely more interesting to me than a Nexus 4. I bet a lot of (former) N900 users will agree. While I never used an N900, I've used phones with and without keyboards over the past few years, and I'm not settling for a touch-only device. There's also more and more of the base Android apps that are abandoned in favour of closed-source, Google branded apps. So there's that as well.
Yes, but it's a 3 row keyboard. I upgraded from the G1 (5 row qwerty) to the G2 (4 row, numbers-on-the-qwerty-row) and it's next to useless. As a phone, I need to use the number line a lot. As a computer /terminal, I need to use letters, numbers & symbols a lot. 3 and 4 row keyboards are bad for both of these use cases. If someone makes a decent, interesting 5-row qwerty phone, I will buy it tomorrow.
I understand. While I mostly use my keyboard for emails and text, you want every character to be available. I've gone from a G1 to a touch only phone, to replace it later with an imported Droid 4 with roughly the same specs as the phone I already had, just because of the keyboard.
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#106I 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…
glabifrons, you are hellbanned as of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6246450 for no obvious reason.
Thanks... extremely confusing since it still has one point, it apparently wasn't downvoted and I don't see how I violated any of the guidelines.
How is it that you can see my postings? Is it your extremely high karma?
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#107reading these comments is quite amusing, something important to note:
this device is in all probability not targeted at you, infact on there website they state that they are only expecting to make ~200 devices
this _is_ _unquestionably_ a small niche marked device aimed directly at the people who want the rare, unusual specs this device has
i am one of them
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
glabifrons, you are hellbanned as of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6246450 for no obvious reason.
Thanks... extremely confusing since it still has one point, it apparently wasn't downvoted and I don't see how I violated any of the guidelines. How is it that you can see my postings? Is it your extremely high karma?
I have showdead turned on. For what it's worth, you no longer appear to be hellbanned.
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#109hi NEO.... whats about ur BATTERY timing ;)
i want +minimum+ whole day with doing lots o work on it
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#110Interesting, I was hoping for a N9 port of Sailfish OS, which is a way more powerful phone than this, but maybe I should consider this, since it seems like an N9 port won't be official: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=90761 edit: or maybe it will? www.jollausers.com/2013/10/sdk-update-jolla-won-an-award/ edit2: ok even more confused now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_yQwTUv3s&feature=youtu.be
@edit 2: IIRC, that's just the launcher and Sailfish SDK, but it's a start.