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Gosh I loved my Nokia N9. Such an amazing little phone, and it's depressing a little that I can't use them anymore where I live

by girvo 11mo ago

Sharlin 11mo ago
It was such an incredible phone. Easily rivaled the iPhones of the time and was light-years beyond any Android.
- ITniggah 11mo ago
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  - girvo 11mo ago
    N9, not the N900! Meego Harmattan was so much nicer for day to day usage
- carlosjobim 11mo ago
  Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life! As for the N9, it still has the most modern and beautiful GUI of any smart device, 15 years after being discontinued. It will take at least 15 more years for iOS or Android to reach that level, if ever. The physical design was also very nice and refined. For those who don't believe me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFNXhiFnKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFNXhiFnKY
  - pessimizer 11mo ago
    I always thought that flagging would get the comment put into a review queue (one that would put even your ability to flag at risk), but it seems that mass flagging gets you an automated flagkill of late. People can get flagkilled for not sufficiently loving particular products or for not being orthorexic enough. As for the N900, I just wanted one or two more hardware iterations (the design flaws were annoying, and a couple mentioned in the OP.) The N9 looked great, but I couldn't get over the loss of the keyboard (although of course that was our dictated future.) The Meego transition seemed unnecessary and annoying (not the UI changes, but everything else), especially the move to rpms from debs. They were just hostile to Debian mainline for some reason; if they had been less hostile, their work would have survived without a break even after Elop intentionally tanked the company. That proprietary moat is just irresistible. iOS and Android literally grabbed the designers of Maemo/Meego and WebOS to update their horrible UIs. Back then, they were still even refusing to multitask. Android copied WebOS almost exactly.
  - officeplant 11mo ago
    >Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life! Going by the username having a near slur in it. Probably that.
gspr 11mo ago
Here's what I don't get: why can't we have a modern one? It doesn't need to blow flagship smartphones out of the water. It doesn't even need to have a GSM baseband – I'd rather just connect through my "normal" smartphone than deal with all the complications of having a whole extra computer in there. Surely this is getting close to realizable by hobbyists or a niche company?
- imp0cat 11mo ago
  Have you seen the Jolla preorder? It was on hn a few days ago. That is the spiritual successor of the N9XX line. https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
  - tincholio 11mo ago
    It's excciting, but I saw a review of a pre-release c2 on youtube [0] the other day, and it seemed extremely slow in the interactions. Otherwise, it seems like a cool device. [0] https://youtu.be/5titW5dclwg https://youtu.be/5titW5dclwg
    - linmob 11mo ago
      The C2 is a different device than the new one linked above, which was way more affordable (~250 Euro) with a 4G Unisoc SoC.
  - mrmlz 11mo ago
    I loved my N9. But i'm somewhat hesitant on preordering that one. I need wireless charging.. And i still dont really get if Android-apps actually work or not, i.e. swedish Bank-Id/Swish etc.
    - gspr 11mo ago
      I'd actually prefer one running a normal Linux. It's a travesty that certain things in daily life require Android or iOS, and that's a fight I'll keep fighting, but the idea of a tiny Linux laptop in my pocket is just so tempting.

Gosh I loved my Nokia N9. Such an amazing little phone, and it's depressing a little that I can't use them anymore where I live

by girvo 11mo ago

Gosh I loved my Nokia N9. Such an amazing little phone, and it's depressing a little that I can't use them anymore where I live

Sharlin 11mo ago

It was such an incredible phone. Easily rivaled the iPhones of the time and was light-years beyond any Android.

ITniggah 11mo ago
[flagged]
- girvo 11mo ago
  N9, not the N900! Meego Harmattan was so much nicer for day to day usage
carlosjobim 11mo ago
Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life! As for the N9, it still has the most modern and beautiful GUI of any smart device, 15 years after being discontinued. It will take at least 15 more years for iOS or Android to reach that level, if ever. The physical design was also very nice and refined. For those who don't believe me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFNXhiFnKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFNXhiFnKY
- pessimizer 11mo ago
  I always thought that flagging would get the comment put into a review queue (one that would put even your ability to flag at risk), but it seems that mass flagging gets you an automated flagkill of late. People can get flagkilled for not sufficiently loving particular products or for not being orthorexic enough. As for the N900, I just wanted one or two more hardware iterations (the design flaws were annoying, and a couple mentioned in the OP.) The N9 looked great, but I couldn't get over the loss of the keyboard (although of course that was our dictated future.) The Meego transition seemed unnecessary and annoying (not the UI changes, but everything else), especially the move to rpms from debs. They were just hostile to Debian mainline for some reason; if they had been less hostile, their work would have survived without a break even after Elop intentionally tanked the company. That proprietary moat is just irresistible. iOS and Android literally grabbed the designers of Maemo/Meego and WebOS to update their horrible UIs. Back then, they were still even refusing to multitask. Android copied WebOS almost exactly.
- officeplant 11mo ago
  >Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life! Going by the username having a near slur in it. Probably that.

gspr 11mo ago

Here's what I don't get: why can't we have a modern one? It doesn't need to blow flagship smartphones out of the water. It doesn't even need to have a GSM baseband – I'd rather just connect through my "normal" smartphone than deal with all the complications of having a whole extra computer in there. Surely this is getting close to realizable by hobbyists or a niche company?

imp0cat 11mo ago
Have you seen the Jolla preorder? It was on hn a few days ago. That is the spiritual successor of the N9XX line. https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
- tincholio 11mo ago
  It's excciting, but I saw a review of a pre-release c2 on youtube [0] the other day, and it seemed extremely slow in the interactions. Otherwise, it seems like a cool device. [0] https://youtu.be/5titW5dclwg https://youtu.be/5titW5dclwg
  - linmob 11mo ago
    The C2 is a different device than the new one linked above, which was way more affordable (~250 Euro) with a 4G Unisoc SoC.
- mrmlz 11mo ago
  I loved my N9. But i'm somewhat hesitant on preordering that one. I need wireless charging.. And i still dont really get if Android-apps actually work or not, i.e. swedish Bank-Id/Swish etc.
  - gspr 11mo ago
    I'd actually prefer one running a normal Linux. It's a travesty that certain things in daily life require Android or iOS, and that's a fight I'll keep fighting, but the idea of a tiny Linux laptop in my pocket is just so tempting.