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That N900 used to be the ultimate hackers phone because how open it was, in fact always considered it more a pocket computer than a phone. Afaik was the first s
by gmuslera 13y ago
That N900 used to be the ultimate hackers phone because how open it was, in fact always considered it more a pocket computer than a phone. Afaik was the first smartphone were was tested taking HDR photos, had a bunch of special pourpose linux distros for it (i.e. NeoPwn, for network auditing) and some other things that we see as normal today, but probably first tested there). And really miss how comfortable was that keyboard compared with touchscreen ones, there are pretty few hw keyboard phones.
Being even more open than the bundled Maemo, with more memory (if well 512k is the double of what it had, it is still small for current day uses) could be the phone version of the raspberry pi.
- ekianjo 13y agoBtw, since you mentioned pocket computers, the OpenPandora is basically the same thing as this new N900 (in terms of hardware) and can run several Linux Distros as well. Personally whenever I need to type something on the go, I use my phone to tether my internet connect to the Pandora and type with it. You can do serious work with it.