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#74
Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
If you still think the N900 is a computer, check out a more open, more standard, and significantly cheaper computer that just went on sale for $99. It's the NanoNote which has copyleft hardware, the full Linux Kernel, and the OpenWrt Linux distro.

http://sharism.cc/products/ben-nanonote/

The only thing to recommend the N900 over the NanoNote (or the Viliv) is the phone capabilities and that is the N900's distinguishing feature. Frankly, just as anyone who bought an N900 expecting an iPhone bought the wrong thing, so did anyone who bought the N900 as a mobile computer.

It's a great smartphone. Accept it.
The NanoNOte has a 3" 320x240 screen a extremely shitty processor and 32 MB of ram, you'd be better of using that 100 bucks towards most of the cost of a used n810, I just bought a used n810 wimax for $120. The linux kernel and openwrt is on my linksys router, but I don't think the general public would call it a desktop capable computer.

The Villiv s5 is $600 bucks, not very pocketable and weights almost twice as much a n810(which is the heaviest tablet nokia ever made). the weight would make it pretty taxing to use without a desk, and yet it's form make it not very lap friendly. It also has no physical keyboard. Also this device would get much hotter when in use than any phone or tablet, so one might not like putting it in ones pocket for other reasons than weight and size.


Only the villiv S5 could be called a desktop capable computer as understood by laymen, but I wouldn't really call it mobile, which nowadays means fairly pocketable. Also a cheap netbook would be more useful, I certainly wouldn't want to hold twice the weight of an n810 in my hands for any amount of time, and a netbook is easy to set and use on a lap, which the villiv s5 sucks at. Also I doubt either of the two devices has a sun readable screen.