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Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
It worked well for the n8x0's ...just pair them with your phone.
Utilizing the connectivity of the phone without the nightmare of integrating cell tech into the n8x0.
Letting the n8x0 do what it does well...
and the phone do what it does well...

Convincing the world this is the way to go...
well that hasn't happened ever with maemo..
and I don't think ever will.
But It is a very smart and sane approach for budget-minded hacker device projects ...
Yes. I know people here tend to poo-poo the iPhone, but the iPhone changed everything. Before the IBM PC, there was a period of great diversity in hobbyist personal computers. Wonderful things like the Amiga appeared. You could buy bizarre computers with Z80 and 6800 CPUs on the same board, which would allow you to run software for different architectures on a single machine without emulation. All that stopped when the IBM PC appeared. Nokia's tablets date back to a similarly inchoate period for smartphones. The iPhone ended the period of radical experimentation. Microsoft, Blackberry, Jolla et al. are trying to build something just like an iPhone, with a different underlying OS, which is silly, pointless and doomed. For the foreseeable future, Apple will have the market for high end, high margin iPhones, and a hundred different manufacturers will make lower-end "iPhones" with Android technology. The N900 is like the Amiga - something nerds will still be talking about fondly 15 years from now, causing all normal people to roll their eyes and try to change the subject.
 

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