Thread: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
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Originally Posted by windows7 View Post
Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?

for example: digital compass for me is one such limitation

The reason i ask this is because, i just purchased an android phone for my wife, very good deal for £99, and found afterwords that this phone will not be able to support flash 10.1 due to physical limitation at the hardware level.
You ask an interesting question.

External to the N900 is the ever changing world around it. Think of the IBM PC XT. Mine still does everything it did for me 25 years ago, which compared to my AMD Athlon 3000+ with 3 GB ram, isn't very much. Things that are internal to my XT work well. It no longer gets along well with the world around it.

I don't see any hardware limitation that will limit its life. I do see external technologies advancing to where the N900 will be less and less capable of properly handling those external items and you might want to grab a more technologically recent device.

From time to time I use a 2G phone because I like the camera on it. I don't upload those pictures to the Internet directly from the phone like I do with the N900. If a call comes in while I'm using it I can take the call. What I don't use is an analog cellular phone because that technology is dead. So, as long as GSM in the current bands is offered the N900 will be a phone with some use left.

Whatever replaces the N900 will face this same issue. It will be a fully capable device for those things that are internal and gradually less and less capable of dealing with the world around it. I don't see a way around it with the current paradigm of unupgradeable at the hardware level devices.

I can gut my XT box, throw in a new power supply, a motherboard/processor/RAM combo, new video card and network card and my XT would be able to deal with the world around it again. There is no end user component upgrade for your N900.
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