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I've owned every generation of them but the b/w screen models really hit the sweet spot. Would trade in any iPhone if something similar with modern connectivity
by marban 4y ago
I've owned every generation of them but the b/w screen models really hit the sweet spot. Would trade in any iPhone if something similar with modern connectivity became available. Psion had better keyboards and software but obv. lacked the modem.
- lnsru 4y agoI also would love to have such device with modern connectivity and decent battery life. And no Android inside please.
- marcodiego 4y agoWhat about the pinephone with the keyboard addon?
- Markoff 4y agohe said decent battery life, pretty much any android phone in market has better screen on time than pinephone
- jacquesm 4y agoI can heartily recommend the Nokia N800-tough. It really is tough (you can use it for self defense in a pinch, after two years of heavy daily use it still looks like brand new, not a scratch on it and I don't even bother about putting it in my pocket together with my keyring), battery life is typically 5 days, but many times more than that (to the point that I'll forget to charge it). No touchscreen, just buttons (which could, to be fair be a bit better). The only gripe: some minor software glitches (for instance: bringing up the address book and immediately starting a search can lose the first keystrokes).
- usr1106 4y agoSomething is not right here, the N800 was no communicator, but what they called Internet tablet. 2 years before the Ipad and a slightly different concept. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>And no Android inside please To be fair, Nokia did release a nearly pure Linux (Meego) based communicator which nobody bought. The ecosystems of Android and iOS means there is no room for competition that can be commercially successful. So if you're building a phone today it will be Android based if you actually want to sell it.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoHello, I'm nobody, and I bought the Nokia N9.
- hcarrega 4y agoI still have n9, n900 and Jolla 1
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoI had unusual foresight at that time and explicitly bought the N9 because I was sure it was the last good phone from Nokia. And in the end I was pretty right.
- webmobdev 4y agoSailfish OS is still competing and Russia has made it its "official" mobile OS ... Many devices support it too - https://jolla-devices.com/sailfish_devices/ https://jolla-devices.com/sailfish_devices/ ...
- usr1106 4y agoThe ties to Russia have been cut. By incindence before the war, but with the war they wouldn't have had any future anyway. Of course lots of the software has open source licences so the Russian can even legally continue to use it. The UI components have a proprietary license. I don't know whether the Russians have the source, but I might guess they do. So they could continue to use it like they do with leased airplanes.
- webmobdev 4y agoCheckout Gemini PDA, Cosmo Communicator and Astro Slide 5g - https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/all https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/all ... while they do come with Android, you are not limited to it and can also install Sailfish, Linux (Kali, Debian) and multiboot.
- tluyben2 4y agoThe Planet devices are nice; I had the first one and it is good (it was so good, someone took the effort to steal it; joke is on them; it was running Linux); I am waiting (less than patiently) for the Slide now.