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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by nico »

sollewitt wrote: post #41

The N900 was my peak “mobile computing is awesome” device. I went to see District 9 in the cinema in Helsinki. Uh oh, the alien parts are only subtitled in Finnish and Swedish and my Finnish is not up to that. I installed a BitTorrent client, found the release on Pirate Bay, successfully torrented just the subtitle file, and used an editor to read the subtitles for scenes with a lot of alien. The N9 had much better U…

Amazing! One time I did something similar. Went to see a movie that was dubbed in Spanish, so I downloaded the movie in English and extracted the audio ahead of time, then I played it on my phone wearing headphones while watching the movie (had to pause/play to adjust timing a few times in the beginning, but after that it was great)

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by yaky »

9notorp wrote: post #60

that was an enjoyable read! loved reading stuff about smartphones on forums, especially symbian ones where the die hard fanboys absoultely believed that this device was better than the iphones and htcs had to offer (including me). too bad maemo / meego died off, we may have seen more interesting devices. loved the "Contains no LLM-generated content" bit.

Thanks!

Maemo Leste is still around, I just tried it on a PinePhone with a keyboard not too long ago.

It's not postmarketOS with a popular DE nor Android, but has a terminal, browser, media player, et.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by officeplant »

carlosjobim wrote: post #128
Sharlin wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was such an incredible phone. Easily rivaled the iPhones of the time and was light-years beyond any Android.

Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life! As for the N9, it still has the most modern and beautiful GUI of any smart device, 15 years after being discontinued. It will take at least 15 more years for iOS or Android to reach that level, if ever. The physical design was also very nice and refined. For those who don't believe me: h…

>Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life!

Going by the username having a near slur in it. Probably that.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by geoffeg »

My N900 was one of my favorite computing devices that I've owned. The keyboard was good enough for my needs, I could open a terminal quickly, battery life was fine. If someone came out with a modern version that had a slide out keyboard and similar size, maybe running a raspberry-pi level CPU, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by tim333 »

amelius wrote: post #148
gspr wrote: post #62

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Here's what I don't get: why can't we have a modern one? It doesn't need to blow flagship smartphones out of the water. It doesn't even need to have a GSM baseband – I'd rather just connect through my "normal" smartphone than deal with all the complications of having a whole extra computer in there. Surely this is getting close to realizable by hobbyists or a niche company?

Because banking apps will not want to run on it, basically.

I'm not sure that has to be a deal breaker. I'd be happy to have the banking apps on an old iphone I left at home.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by 0x457 »

carlosjobim wrote: post #132
larodi wrote: post #77

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It is amazing Nokia missed on the mobile revolution as n900 predated iPhone if I remember correctly. But Nokia did one massive mistake and it was to bet on Linux for this device. Even when they already had lot of Symbian experience, which also was week though when it came to user apps. The modified BSD on the first iPhones was simply blazingly fast.

Linux was not a mistake on these devices. And I say that as the foremost hater of open source and Linux you can find around here. In fact, the N9 Linux phone was a huge success among everyday people in several countries. Farmers, teenagers, everybody got an N9. You couldn't go to any small party without at least two people having the N9 phone. Everybody loved them. It was in no way a hacker device for nerds. What kil…

> You couldn't go to any small party without at least two people having the N9 phone. Everybody loved them. It was in no way a hacker device for nerds.

I don't think I ever saw N9 or any of the N9XX phones in real life.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by mghackerlady »

ACCount37 wrote: post #88
theshrike79 wrote: post #68

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The only weird thing about it was that you couldn't charge a fully empty N810 with the micro(?) usb charger. It'd charge just enough to boot and then crash again, because it couldn't wake up far enough to negotiate a higher current with the charger. Had to use a barrel plug to charge it. Spent a very nervous and sweaty day figuring that out when I bought one used with no warranty or returns and it didn't boot properl…

It sure is a weird thing, but yes, the first mobile devices that shipped with USB didn't really know how to charge off it.

Which, to be fair to them, usb was never supposed to be a power delivery standard (at least not more than the 5 volts needed to power a mouse)
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