Originally Posted by VaZso

I have replaced my N900 exactly a year ago since its eMMC stopped working. This was my second N900 with the same problem, the first one still works using MicroSD as part of the system (the phone also has a 256 MB primary storage which still works).

The second one still could be waken up the same way, however, it also had other problems like loosing SIM connection sometimes.
I had two main problems at last - slow CPU and few RAM, the latter is only 256MB altogether.
It was not really able to cope with modern web pages.

However, I remember a few years ago we were presenting a new system which were still under development running at a private computer somewhere else. The computer was connected to a UPS, but it did not work and a power outage restarted the whole system two times during the presentation. Fortunately, I could use my N900 to get everything to work again not leaving us in trouble. Today's phones without a landscape querty keyboard are completely unusable in such situations.

Originally Posted by HtheB

Instead of replying "Thanks", why not (also) use the "Thanks!" button?

Originally Posted by Kabouik

We need Android or iOS to take the bus, the train, pay for parking[...]

Originally Posted by Kabouik

That's exactly where Maemo 5 and the N900 excel. See them as the old laptops used in the ISS: you don't want something bleeding edge there, but you want something that works in most cases because it uses generic stuff, reliable because the technology is robust and well tested, and behaves the way you want it to behave. In many ways, except of course from its size, the N900 feels like a micro computer more than a mobile phone with some computer specs.

Originally Posted by Kabouik

The N900 is way too slow for nowadays standards, let alone the outdated browser and the lack of applications for public or private companies. Yet, it still shines for its keyboard, compact form factor, stylus, quality resistive screens, and other gadgets (RGB LED, FM, stero, etc.). And most of all, it features an OS that does not work as if it was locked down to a category of devices on which one should prefer specific applications for specific services. You need to do something Unix can do? Odds are good that the N900 might be able to do it.

Originally Posted by Kabouik

I cannot say that I would use my N900 for daily use because besides the lack of HWKB/stylus, I am happy with Sailfish and the Android compatibility.

Originally Posted by Kabouik

However, I wish all companies would still offer their services as if they didn't assume everyone has the same OS. They didn't do it 10 or 15 years ago, while they do assume you have Android or iOS now, pretty much as if it was mandatory like a bank account. And they are right in most cases, but this totally changes the way they offer their services because they serve only the monopolistic OSes, which causes issues. Often, bank applications could just use websites with the same features, but the paradigm is to embed every single service in its own application now. We need Android or iOS to take the bus, the train, pay for parking, or even interact, and sometimes there are no website alternative (some services are not even available for a regular computer). Unfortunately, this is a rather restrictive idea of what an OS ecosystem should be: instead of promoting additional features, it just starves everything else because we now need a specific OS to do stuff that used to be generic. And since they often lock their APIs or their code, even the good will of a third-party developer is useless.

Originally Posted by Kabouik

Let's hope this can change progressively thanks to PostmarketOS, Maemo-Leste, Sailfish, Librem, and most of all the rising public concern (in some communities or countries only, so far) about privacy, freedom and ever-growing GAFAs. The hope is thin, but that's still something, and I can safely say that I would be happy if mobile OSes in the future could become just a variety of tools to achieve similar goals, instead of prerequisites pre-selected by market monopoles to fulfill basic needs like public transportation.

Originally Posted by VaZso

Sometimes changes in the world go to wrong direction... like all the phones are the same now with small differences (except Pro1 and a few), every phone getting slimmer with the practical inability of replacing the battery. Same happens with notebooks, you are not even able to buy a robust one even from big manufacturers and high price, because everything "should" be thin and light... also, with internal battery in a business computer...

Despite the highly-publicised launch of its own HarmonyOS, Huawei is reportedly preparing a pilot-test of Russia's Aurora OS on its mobile devices. Aurora is based on the Sailfish OS, which was developed in Finland before its adoption by the Russian Open Mobile Platform with the backing of oligarch Grigory Berezkin.

Originally Posted by xman

Great in that it may bring more devices with sailfish to market, which means more software possible. Unless everyone just load android software .

Originally Posted by xman

Breaking News:

New Huawei OS Shock: 'Confirmation' Of Russian Software For Mobile Devices

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoff.../#544f6ea979c8



This could be really great or how sailfish is made out to be a backdoor enemy Communist ... think of what ever other nice things some will say about this news.

Great in that it may bring more devices with sailfish to market, which means more software possible. Unless everyone just load android software .

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