Thread: Is there any real alternative?
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Loggy1948 is offline Loggy1948
2010-09-21 , 11:07
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#11
why are so many people in this forum giving "its a real computer" as an excuse for all those flawed elements of the n900?
thats like saying "i know i can die from an car-crash in a dacia when driving 50 km/h, but its ok since its a dacia". no, its not ok!
Exactly.

Knowing it was a 'real computer' was the hook for me and it makes sense since I got a good deal and needed to renew two phones to have two of them. But just because a machine is a ferrari under the hood doesn't mean that you can get away with Trabant bodywork, to continue msa's metaphor.

I don't have time to spend making something that is sold as a phone useable - I expect the manufacturers to get it right. They haven't so I want to replace the OS with something that works. I'm prepared to do that once and I use Kubuntu all the time but it seems that these alternatives do not actually work as phones - even Android.