Thread: A week without my N900 refreshes my memory and leaves me with no successor
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jw461 is offline jw461
2011-12-16 , 21:19
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#7
Originally Posted by sulu View Post
Get a replacement N900 as long as they're out there!
There will be no other phone that can replace the N900 within the next 5-10 years.
The only player on the market that would create a similar but updated phone like the N900 is Openmoko. But they don't have the resources to actually do that.
One problem is that as well as as well-tweaked N900 runs (compared to a stock one), it's slooooow compared to the new crop of Android phones. Also, apps/updates are slow to arrive; for example, the extra media decoders haven't been add-to in a long time and I'm starting to find video files it can't play. Not too big a deal now, but it'll just get worse, not better. As nice as the N900's screen was in its time, it looks HORRIBLE compared to some of the newer phones.

Want a new case? You're limited to cheap chinese sweatshop goods on ebay and whatever retailers have in stock from 2 years ago. I wanted to buy an Otterbox yesterday and found that I couldn't...out of stock everywhere, and it's probably not coming back.