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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 04:05:10 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   The Nokia n900 was SO ahead of its time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2LL6nVzTp8

   Linux based smartphone! That felt great! Fold out keyboard! With GTK! Based on Debian!

   I've still NEVER used a phone that felt as good as the n900 did

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 04:15:32 JST mark

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     @cwebber absolutely one of my favorites

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     Korkeala (korkeala@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 04:35:48 JST Korkeala

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     • Fabrice Desré

     @fabrice @cwebber I had also the N9 and really liked it. There was also keyboard version aimed at developers, the N950 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N950). Shame Nokia didn't put more resources for the maemo/meego platforms.

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     Andres S (andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 04:35:48 JST Andres S

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     @korkeala @fabrice @cwebber Wow, nostalgia...

     [I was employed to work on the stack for the N9 (ofono and telepathy and a few other things) shortly before nokia gave up. I didn't develop anything for the N900, but used one A LOT for testing maemo stuff.]

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     Fabrice Desré (fabrice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 04:35:49 JST Fabrice Desré

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     @cwebber The N9 that came after the N900 was also incredible (no physical keyboard though). Such a missed opportunity.

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     Leo Gaggl (leogaggl@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 09:10:51 JST Leo Gaggl

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     @cwebber You're 💯 right on that. I am still salty with Nokia for the capitulation and sellout. Both Maemo and Symbian were far superior (other than some UI shortcomings) to all the other stuff out there.

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     FreeJohn🔰 (johnveneklasen@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 09:25:25 JST FreeJohn🔰

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     @cwebber, this is proof that innovation can go backwards.

     I've been looking for phones like this, even a keyboard CASE and it just doesn't exist anymore.