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Today is #Nokia #N900 15th anniversary.

Nokia N900 was released on November 11th, 2009 and is one of the few last mobile Linux devices.

It is also the last device to be shipped with the Maemo operating system.

#mobilelinux #maemo

21 comments
edappere

@danct12 I still have a N800 in a drawer which is even a little bit older πŸ™‚ but no use for it anymore 🀷

Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux:

@danct12 I loved this phone (on stock Maemo and the CSSU). There has never been, and maybe never will be, a better phone for me.

raw

@ozzelot @danct12 It really is a legendary device. A shame the Neo900 project didn't pan out. We just need the same body/hardware with a modern SoC...

Niklaus 'vimja' Hofer

@danct12
> It is also the last device to be shipped with the Maemo operating system.

Was it though? Sure, they said the N9 was MeeGo, but I've always felt it was more Maemo 6 than MeeGo. It was still dpkg based after all.

I do fully agree with the sentiment though. The n900 was the greatest smartphone ever released, by a long stretch.

I still have two of them and often think back to the good old times...

Maciej

@danct12@fosstodon.org It really is a quite nice phone, I have one that I bought... about two years ago? Was hoping to have some fun and find a semi-permanent use case for it, but I never found one :( while it is so freaking awesome, everything that it can do can also be done on my android

Jorge Sanz

@danct12 I had a Nokia 770, with no keyboard, but was a pretty cool device for that time, slow, but was able to get some stuff done.

Thanks for the reminder.

Sebastian Lauwers

@danct12 I had the 770, the N810 and the N900. Wrote so much software for that platform.

I miss Maemo and the gang.

Pavel Machek
@danct12 ...and thanks to Maemo Leste project, you can still get updated software for it. And unlike original Maemo, this is actually opensource ;-).
mxk

@grimm @danct12 that comparison is going to make people angry πŸ˜‚
(Since this thing was running a full Linux, and you could start OpenOffice on it, while the sidekick was basically a thin client and couldn't do anything fancy on its own)

Tom Walker

@danct12 I really tried to stick with keyboard phones but they just totally upped and died, seemingly all at once. One year you could get them, the next year all gone.

π”Έπ•Ÿπ•”π•šπ•–π•Ÿπ•₯ π•Šπ• π•¦π•Ÿπ••π•€ πŸ”‰

@tomw @danct12

Not quite gone for ever: F(x)tec Pro1-x running Ubuntu Touch, 2024

Pretty good but the keyboard's a bit fiddly; the Nokia kbd looks nice

@ubports

Hannes Stein

@danct12 This was definitely the best cell phone. It is a shame that the tablet of the Jolla project never went into series production.

stefan b

@danct12 such a good phone! I was heartbroken when the USB port on mine broke (a common issue) and Nokia told me there was no way for them to repair it

I'm still bitter about that all these years later

Eric

@danct12 I remember when people were so excited about Maemo

Sebastian Wagner

@danct12 also don't forget the N9. Imo was a pretty good phone without any ecosystem

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