Thread: WTB: 1 x N950, serious offers only.
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greygoo is offline greygoo
2011-08-17 , 13:27
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That being said, I'm not so sure why people want them - Near as I can tell, it'll be many months before it's 'usable': No file manager, no OC-able kernel, none of the important bits that make the N900 so valuable. So... why not just get a couple of(cheap) N900s, OC the ****** out of them, and simply know they won't last as long?
If you do a custom OC voltage profile you can probably get most N900s up to at least 1ghz; swap tweaks and such can solve the problem of memory, and EasyDebian can help with nonexistent apps.
After all that is going on with the mobile market I now did exactly that. got me a second n900 as hardware backup. This way I hope I can sit out the next two years of mobile madness and hopefully there will be other hardware available then that can be used with an (mostly) open source OS like maemo or similar.

Next I need to mirror all repos and get me burn me some DVD containing the binary stuff. then I sit back, relax and wait for some light at the end of the tunnel ...

My personal friend atm is more or less HTC, they let customers now remove the bootloader signature checks so that custom kernels and thus custom systems can be booted, I hope that there will be further steps into this (in my personal opinion right) direction.

And yes - I would take an n950 if i could get it But I simply doubt that will happen, in my opinion Nokia does not want that and will also try to avoid it whereever possible, so I won;t waste anymore resources on that - this comment is all the time I invested now and it is enough.
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