Nokia n900 for me, circa 2010. It ran Linux (real Linux!), had a pretty good camera, headphone jack, sd card slot, slide out keyboard, 4or 5 day battery life, xmpp instant messaging natively. It was perfect. It was a little bit chunky, but would fit in a jeans pocket perfectly and didn’t weigh too much.
100%. I don’t miss mine, because I still have it, but sadly don’t use it anymore. Nokia really screwed up, they had the next generation of tech in their pockets and let it be crushed by Windows Phone.
It’s one of the massive screw-ups in tech that anyone in the field was absolutely horrified by back in the day. It was worse than Zuck’s legless Metaverse, or today’s vibe coding changes to production servers. Alright, no, the latter is worse.
Nokia n900 for me, circa 2010. It ran Linux (real Linux!), had a pretty good camera, headphone jack, sd card slot, slide out keyboard, 4or 5 day battery life, xmpp instant messaging natively. It was perfect. It was a little bit chunky, but would fit in a jeans pocket perfectly and didn’t weigh too much.
100%. I don’t miss mine, because I still have it, but sadly don’t use it anymore. Nokia really screwed up, they had the next generation of tech in their pockets and let it be crushed by Windows Phone.
It’s one of the massive screw-ups in tech that anyone in the field was absolutely horrified by back in the day. It was worse than Zuck’s legless Metaverse, or today’s vibe coding changes to production servers. Alright, no, the latter is worse.