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I have an old Nokia N900 phone that runs a custom alpine linux-based rom (postmarketOS). Given the limited hardware resources, small screen size, and sliding ke
by anthonyhn 4y ago
I have an old Nokia N900 phone that runs a custom alpine linux-based rom (postmarketOS). Given the limited hardware resources, small screen size, and sliding keyboard, you'll be mostly running terminal applications on this phone (some GUI apps works but the experience is mixed). There are some unofficial terminal clients for Signal [0], and iirc hacker news works with the lynx terminal browser. The N900 might work for this scenario as a feature-minimal phone, but depends on your use cases.
[0] https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs
- selfhoster11 4y agoWorth mentioning that at least on my N900 stock Maemo, battery life is pretty crap and totally unpredictable. In my experience it’s as likely to discharge in 4 hours, as it is to last 9 hours and still have some charge. That said, N900 was an amazing breath of fresh air compared to the stifling monopoly of iOS and Android, and actually worked unlike modern Linux phones.