Hopefully we get phones soon!
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| Author | Content |
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| Jeff91 Nov 22, 2013 5:01 PM EDT |
I can only keep parting together N900s from broken pieces for so long. Hopefully they get a decent Tizen mobile into the wild before I have to break down and buy something new. ~Jeff |
| penguinist Nov 22, 2013 8:44 PM EDT |
Ha! I thought I was the only one doing that. My N9 is the only phone I have been able to verifiably secure, and I'm not letting go of it until another reasonably open phone comes along. Tizen might sway me when those phones hit the shelves. Until then its Ebay or whatever I need to do to keep an N9 in the palm of my hand. |
| notbob Nov 23, 2013 11:29 AM EDT |
> Ha! I thought I was the only one doing that. I wish you were not so rare a specimen. I'll not buy a real smartphone or tablet until one runs a real linux OS. Screw ad-roid and the M$ extortion-based business model it rode in on. I still keep this page bookmarked fer giggles: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone |
| gus3 Nov 24, 2013 5:31 PM EDT |
Warning: notbob's link is definitely NSFW! |
| number6x Nov 24, 2013 10:11 PM EDT |
While you are waiting, you can make your own GSM phone... http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-cellphone-from... |
| Jeff91 Nov 25, 2013 2:14 PM EDT |
I'm also hoping something good comes from this -> http://neo900.org/ ~Jeff |
| penguinist Nov 25, 2013 6:35 PM EDT |
If you think about it, we upgrade phones regularly for one reason, the phones are rapidly improving and after a year or two something much better becomes available. Right? Well, it seems that the pinnacle was reached in open phone architecture with the n900/n9 products, and then Nokia got itself hijacked by Microsoft. So maybe we won't be seeing improvements coming along. Maybe what we have is the best we can get for now. Maybe we don't need to upgrade after a year. Maybe keeping our n900/n9 running by whatever means necessary is the best way. I for one am standing firm. I won't be upgrading phones again until a product even more open and transparent than the n900/n9 is offered to the market. I see no reason to downgrade to "new" products if they are less open that what I already have. If it takes five years then so be it. I'm ready for the wait. |
| Jeff91 Nov 26, 2013 5:52 PM EDT |
Did you check out that Neo900 link? They are building main board upgrade kits for existing N900s. They plan to maintain some Open OSes for them as well. I'm pretty excited about it. ~Jeff |
| JaseP Nov 26, 2013 6:41 PM EDT |
I'm liking that link, Jeff,... thanks for sharing it... |
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