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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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328 points yaky | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.497s | source
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stego-tech ◴[12 Dec 25 01:19 UTC] No.46239741[source]▶
Man, I miss my N80ie. The towns I lived in didn’t get UMTS/3G until the ‘10s, but the EDGE radios were enough. Loved Symbian, miss it.
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qingcharles ◴[12 Dec 25 01:28 UTC] No.46239817[source]▶
My first Internet phone was the Nokia 9000, which was limited to GSM (9600bps). I built and debugged one of the first major music streaming services on that connection because I was working remote and my DSL got cut off. I had to add a 2Kbps stream option to the production servers for myself just so I could test it.
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1. rboyd ◴[12 Dec 25 03:02 UTC] No.46240407[source]▶
is this the phone Val Kilmer had in the movie The Saint? badass phone
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2. qingcharles ◴[12 Dec 25 06:55 UTC] No.46241543[source]▶
Yes! I was so excited he had that phone in the movie.

They even include an owner in-joke, which means someone in the production must have owned one of these phones. Everyone I lent the phone to would pick it up the "wrong" way -- they would put the external screen to their face, like every other phone. But the mic and speaker were on the back. I had to quickly find the scene in the movie here:

https://imgur.com/a/hojf5DZ