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"Last year's phone""Last year's phone"Posted May 16, 2012 17:53 UTC (Wed) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274)In reply to: "Last year's phone" by thisisme Parent article: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich
Hear, hear!
I have an N900 which really begins to behave unreliably (had a nasty vfat failure, which wiped most of /home/user/MyDocs) ... since that, it has been rather unstable. I'll try to reflash it and hope it improves.
But I'm really struggling to find a *real* alternative. Nokia ditched the MeeGo platform, which could have been a real alternative. No way am I going to support Nokia by buying their devices when they're not committed to MeeGo or Tizen. And the only interesting Nokia device with MeeGo can't be bought in the shops even, the N950.
One of my requirements I probably have to forget about, is a hardware keyboard. As I'm using my N900 for a lot of SSH stuff, I can't imagine the pain a touch-keyboard would be. I hope an external bluetooth keyboard may become my "plan B". Motorola have a few models, which is not available in Northern-Europe, and then there's HTC's Desire Z which is outdated.
I considered webOS - but its future is also vague/unclear, and devices with the right specs isn't easy to come over where I live. And there haven't been much happening around Tizen either. So the most open alternative left is Android - which is really a big pity ... but I'd rather go straight for CM instead, as I don't trust Google enough. CM seems more like a more real Android community than Google's Android, no matter how oddly that might sound.
If just a device with specs similar to HTC One S comes arrive a hardware keyboard ... I would jump to that boat rather soonish. But I doubt that will happen. And I wonder how long I can keep the N900 alive in the mean time.
If anyone have some good suggestions, I'm all ears.
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"Last year's phone" Posted May 17, 2012 8:56 UTC (Thu) by thisisme (subscriber, #83315) [Link]
> One of my requirements I probably have to forget about, is a hardware keyboard. As I'm using my N900 for a lot of SSH stuff, I can't imagine the pain a touch-keyboard would be.
Amen to that.
Given the sad fact that my N900 will eventually die, probably sooner rather than later, I won't have the option of waiting who-knows-how-long for Tizen / Boot2Gecko / a future open-source WebOS device. And of course there are no guarantees that any of the above three will actually materialize, let alone survive as a viable alternative in the long term. Let alone producing a compelling device with a HW keyboard, which seems to becoming more and more of a niche.
In my mind, that leaves Android as the only option, despite all misgivings I have about the Google mothership. Sadly, as you pointed out, there aren't many phones with a keyboard. I have sort of half-decided to get the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro. It appears that it is possible to get the latest CM working on that, even though it doesn't appear on their "official" list of supported devices.
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