Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2013-08-28 , 20:12
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Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
If money is the most important factor, well, this project might not be exactly, what you are looking for.
Don't get me wrong, this project is very attractive to me and money is not the most important factor for me. What I'm primarily looking for is a solid OS base, potentially in the form of Fremantle rebased over Debian. I would be very willing to help with that too (time permitting). Give me that as a first-class OS and I would pay more for the Neo900 than the Jolla device, even if it's only going to have 512MB RAM.

One of the reasons I'm keen on this is so that we can have an up to date, stable OS where we leave the maintenance of the core OS to the Debian community so the Neo900 communitity can then concentrate on hardware adaptation and Frematle specific stuff.

Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
But you also state you would rather have an OSS-computer in your hands with phone capabilities than a pure phone, that is the N900 and, may be, if we are lucky, the Neo900 as well.
Exactly. That's why I'm so interested in this project.

Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
My expectation regarding openness of Jolla is low. They were Nokia people and their track record to bring a true OSS-phone to the market is obvious in the struggle to update Maemo to more modern Debian versions.
Up until the announcement of the Neo900, Jolla seemed to be the best option for a new mobile FOSS device, however I am skeptical of Jolla too. Among other things, I'm not keen that they (the Mer project) prefer to use unmaintained GPLv2 versions of software in favour of Tivoisation. Let's hope the Neo900 can deliver where Jolla can't.

Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
@all: what would you think about maybe 2GB of fast swap on top of 512MB RAM, instead of 1GB true RAM? Would that somewhat satisfy your requirements?
Fast swap sounds like a good compromise to me.
 

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