Thread: Linus bought a Nexus One, ignored n900 questions
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abubakar is offline abubakar
2010-02-08 , 10:55
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Originally Posted by hippo View Post
Personally I think the next phone Linus will be getting will be a maemo device assuming:
* no keyboard
* ovi maps 3.0
* better battery life
* Linus will probably realize that are quite a few apps that he needs on linux that limited Android functionality won't address.
next maemo device without a physical keyboard is scary (for me)

Originally Posted by hippo View Post
Its clear from the blog entry that Linus is pretty much "I-am-not-a-power-user" mobile device user and a reluctant one at that.
yea, he writes linux kernel for a living, its a lot of cool complicated stuff he does all the time, and maybe unlike others he has no need at all of having a device which also has a terminal, ssh access and all the openness that n900 has. Makes sense for not *going for* n900.