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2018-10-23
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@ North Potomac MD
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2018-10-23
, 09:07
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@ Germany
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Still wish I could have a N950 with updated specs. Most beautiful designed phone ever.
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2018-10-23
, 14:47
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@ Colombia
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https://liliputing.com/2018/10/there...t-devices.html
The Windows devices can run Linux distros.
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2018-10-23
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Do they have to? Was it not you bemoaning folks no longer being adventurous in the other thread?
Some folks, including yours truly, avoided Nokia when it was big exactly because it was big.
It was the Microsoft of the mobile world. I may have missed on the Nxx0 series in the early days but... I could never have been able to afford them anyway.
On the other hand, I decided to be adventurous and go for a little known brand called Palm. I never regretted it. I used the same device for 9 years. The best UX of all time, unrivaled by anything to this day. No awkwardly placed keys (right, wicket? ), every UX element thought through to the last detail and for maximum efficiency. Why does no one learn? There is an existing example of how things can be done well yet everyone keeps reinventing the wheel. Badly.
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2018-10-23
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@ UK
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Last I checked, you're the person that has constantly stated that you will never buy anything brand new.
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2018-10-23
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Minor correction, never (again) buy anything crowdfunded. I burned my fingers too many times. As far as I remember, you stated the same.
Also, define "new". I am not in the position to buy something as soon as it comes out but after three months, when the price goes down a bit... and I find a use for it, rather than buying it just for the novelty factor... who knows?
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2018-10-23
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I'm not sure about that.
I mean, yes, it looks nice, but although I've never seen one in real life I always believed, that the tilting display would be rather impractical. When I hold my N900 it's actually a good thing, that there's no angle between display and keyboard.[...]
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2018-10-23
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@ From my Gabriola Island hermitage, near the Edge of the World
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I'm not sure about that.
I mean, yes, it looks nice, but although I've never seen one in real life I always believed, that the tilting display would be rather impractical. When I hold my N900 it's actually a good thing, that there's no angle between display and keyboard.
Also, the keyboard looks like a chance not taken. My main complaint about the N900's keyboard has always been, how cramped it is. I would have really liked it to have one or two more rows, to make the keys a bit bigger (or to add space between them) and to have dedicated numbers keys.
The N950 adds a fourth row and space between the keys, but because it only has 11 keys per row (N900: 13), there is still not enough room for dedicated numbers keys.
Apart from the keyboard I still believe, the N900 is the pinnacle of smartphone hardware. It's just gotten old.
Fix the keyboard, put in half-decent modern hardware that runs on mainline Linux and I'll immediately buy it for 1k Euros!
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2018-10-24
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@ Germany
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I've got an n950, and it really is very, very nice. Much more solid feeling than the n900, because of the aluminum case. It feels as good as any 2018 flagship phone that I've touched.
I can barely stand to look at it though, because of the thoughts of what might have been.
A few more bucks and you can have an almost obsolete variant...
straight off the neo assembly line when they start production...
any day now
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2018-10-24
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