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Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

For me it was N900 > Jolla > Jolla > Jolla
Still all phones are in use.

But i had to realize that trying to improve usability by utilizing two or three Jollas is as effective as trying to drill a 10 inch hole with three 5 inch drill heads...

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Originally Posted by Android_808 (Post 1504004)

My nick predates Android by several years.

Very :cool:
Just now i realized having slashed thousends of androids playing CounterStrike back then. Feels rewarding, thank you.

Now your nick just needs to be reinterpreted as "Android not available, double 404".

I think your friends 8 0 8 suggestion is drawn from this iconic instrument, right?

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

N900 -> then I put a twin SIM card in a Geeksphone Peak -> the N900 gsm module gets detached from the motherboard in 2013 and the Geeksphone(firefoxOS) became the main phone :eek: Then saved by Jolla in January 2014. I love my Jolla phone and Tablet, but still play around with other phones . My twin SIM card now lives in a bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, and my bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet is already shipped and may arrive any moment .
I now and then turn on the N900 just for fun. It's no longer a phone but can still be used as a mail reader, music/podcast player, terminal and other interesting stuff..:cool:

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

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Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1504097)

Hmmm.... :cool::cool:;)

"Luke! I'am your father!" :o

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

Nokia N900>Xperia SP>Xperia Z>BB Z10 (loved both OS and phone)>Galaxy S4 and now thinking of buying one N9. Still love this phone both OS and Design. But i still have my N900 and running on latest Thumb version.

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1504109)

Well, if we REALLY start nitpicking there's plenty of devices that run Linux, it is just that they are lacking GNU/Linux.

Meh. I prefer actual free Linux, not the subset where Richard Stallman forces you to put his own personal prefix onto the name. ;)

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

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Originally Posted by mosen (Post 1504119)

Just now i realized having slashed thousends of androids playing CounterStrike back then. Feels rewarding, thank you.

Now your nick just needs to be reinterpreted as "Android not available, double 404".

I think your friends 8 0 8 suggestion is drawn from this iconic instrument, right?

808 is just from Rob. Actually played CS (CS:GO actually) for the first time the other day. I remember defuse kit being on 5, apparently not now. Got kicked trying to find it.

I am considering a RPi3 + official touchscreen. Its the same resolution as N900 IIRC so it might be helpful to my pet project, the very slow process of porting Hildon to GTK3. Ideally I'd like to get another N900 but I'm a bit worried about ordering off eBay in case of issue with telephony or USB. Secondly I don't know what performance would be like running it on an actual N900. Only one way to find out I suppose...

I did nearly pre-order the Jolla phone a few years back but wasn't sure at the time. Same with the tablet (was going to go Phone+64G package) but was worried in case it went belly up...good call.

Currently toying with Fairphone 2, but waiting to see if official Sailfish support actually happens. Also considering a GPD Win to have something unique and to have a complete desktop OS stack when out and about in a tiny form factor.

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

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Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 1504135)

Meh. I prefer actual free Linux, not the subset where Richard Stallman forces you to put his own personal prefix onto the name. ;)

You are of course free to choose your userland :D
What do you prefer then, BSD perhaps?

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

BSD is no Linux. BSD is proper Unix! ;)

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

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Originally Posted by Android_808 (Post 1504142)

but I'm a bit worried about ordering off eBay in case of issue with telephony or USB. .

I would ask @explit to help getting one from here.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/222000347941?_mwBanner=0

They only ship to Germany, but explit was very helpful reshipping for me.
I and explit both confirmed it as bring new and in perfect condition.

Re: What have former N900 owners moved to?

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1504150)

You are of course free to choose your userland :D
What do you prefer then, BSD perhaps?

Oh, I certainly enjoy the products that were created under Stallman's leadership. But I also enjoy the works of Torvalds, as well as those produced at Berkeley, MIT, Bell Labs, and many other places. All these folks have had a hand in producing the modern crop of Unix or Unix-like operating systems; and make no mistake, whether or not actual code has propagated between various versions of Unix, all of them have influenced each other significantly.

I simply find the efforts of one man to try and control the world of open source software to be uncomfortable. I don't want Pierogi to start being called GNU/Pierogi, even though I currently license it under the GPL. Until Linus Torvalds himself changes the name of Linux to GNU/Linux, I will continue to call it just Linux.