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Originally Posted by datensenke View Post
Hi Richard, which phone is it? I haven't found anything with sliding keyboard and without google or apple nuisance.
Please don't derail this thread into a discussion about why android isn't true linux, and why it sucks, and why maemo can't get ported to new "cheap" hardware that is tivoized, not fully documented, or at very least not functional without lots of proprietary and closed source blobs that are not portable to maemo.
The OP contributed a rather irrelevant (for Neo900) statement (see reply in next post) - actually he stated something similar to "I found a motorbike for cheap money, that runs 200km/h and can do a lot of stunts, so all I need, time to move on from and forget about expensive and slow trucks" - and there's little use in further elaborating on that. This thread already has plenty of explanations on why we don't want leete new device with snapdragon or whatever incompatible hw (for now).
Keep in mind that neither N900 (originally) nor Neo900 are advertised as phones - rather the 770,N800,N810,N900 been advertised as NIT (wiki seems wrong here regarding N900) and the Neo900 is an embedded linux open MID device with voicecall and WWAN functions and is not competing with the current definition of the class of (closed) "smartphone" devices, the key product features and requirement specs differ quite a bit. Neo900 is about the maemo community, the proven maemo5 OS, the maemo5 pool of apps, and the maemo5 (and linux) knowledge base as found in wiki and in this forum.
Please don't perpetuate the futile discussion for another turn.
Thanks

/j
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