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I remember jumping on the N900 bandwagon. Hardware wise, for its time maybe, it was perfect with its full qwerty keyboard. Software was so bad it was tragic.
by INTPenis 9y ago
I remember jumping on the N900 bandwagon.
Hardware wise, for its time maybe, it was perfect with its full qwerty keyboard.
Software was so bad it was tragic. You couldn't even trust phone calls to work.
Clearly I want a FOSS phone to work but the market is miniscule and therefore the product quality will likely remain on a hobbyist level.
Furthermore I tried the Jolla phone and that wasn't exactly FOSS but the small team could be compared to what you might see in a FOSS phone. And again it was barely useful.
I also tried the ZTE Firefox OS phone, it felt like a toy and the OS was crippled.
- Arathorn 9y agoI think the plan here is to be hyperfocused on private/secure Comms and Browser and do that well. Many more apps can come from the wider Linux ecosystem as time goes on, but this is a very different proposition to another me-too FOSS alternative to iOS or Android.
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- JoshTriplett 9y agoI used an N900 for years as my primary phone. It worked very well for me, including for calls. I eventually gave it up, solely because I wanted the ability to run specific Android applications. But honestly, if I had the power of a full Debian-based system, I wouldn't need that.
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoMaemo worked very well actually.