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Depends on the price though. Openness is a feature and unfortunately it has a price, and honestly I would not care about the speed or screen resolution. I mea
by jokoon 13y ago
Depends on the price though.
Openness is a feature and unfortunately it has a price, and honestly I would not care about the speed or screen resolution.
I mean the lower the screen size, the more little pixels are anyways, so why care about the resolution ?
Screen size is a stupid debate. You want a large screen to browse the web, but not too large because you will use it as a phone ? And even if it's 7 inch or 5 inch, people will try to load bigger apps and it won't work. People want to browse the web on their phone and be comfortable and not look stupid. 1st world problem, as always.
I think all you can want for such a device is to post on forums, see some pictures, chat, quickly view and answer mail, read documents, but for the rest, stop complaining and find a place to sit down with your laptop.
- edwintorok 13y agoThe larger the resolution the slower the device will be cause it needs to process more pixels. I agree that openness is the greatest value for Neo900. Before Neo900 got announced I was considering Jolla as my next phone, but they failed to deliver on the 'truly open' promise. The alternative would be to run something like Replicant/Cyanogenmod on an Android device, but with the Samsung backdoor news Cyanogenmod doesn't look too good. And Replicant doesn't support GPS on any of its target devices. So that really leaves little choice as to what phone I'll buy next, and currently Neo900 is at the top of my list.
- yetfeo 13y agoThe Geeksphone Revolution could be an interesting choice. Comes with Android pre-rooted installed with menu options to install other ROM's including Mozilla's Boot to Gecko as a supported option. You could run the latter with the Mozilla open source RIL implementation if you're concerned about that. I do like the hardware keyboard on the N900/Neo900 though.
- em3rgent0rdr 13y agoI use Replicant. I've discovered that I don't really need GPS, as it turns out I usually know where I am. I just look at openstreetmap first and quickly memorize my route.
- edwintorok 13y agoRegarding the price they say in the FAQ that "reaching 1 000 devices will significantly reduce the final price of the device and make component sourcing (like 1GB RAM) much easier". Currently the donation meter shows 340 devices: http://neo900.org/#donate http://neo900.org/#donate
- GoodIntentions 13y ago>> but for the rest, stop complaining and find a place to sit down with your laptop. Exactly that. I carry an n900 as my daily use phone/pda and it works great as a "better-than-nothing" device for ssh access/websurfing. Its' strength is that I have it 24/7 not that it is as good as a desktop/laptop. I'm looking forward to the neo. I'd like it to be faster, yes. but that requirement is way down the list.