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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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366 points yaky | 3 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.822s | source
1. d3Xt3r ◴[12 Dec 25 03:05 UTC] No.46240421[source]▶
I recall there was a project to revive the N900 with modern internals, anyone know what happened to it?
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2. yaky ◴[12 Dec 25 03:09 UTC] No.46240452[source]▶
There was Neo900, abandoned in 2018. The site is still up though: https://neo900.org/#main
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3. Arch-TK ◴[12 Dec 25 03:27 UTC] No.46240561[source]▶
It wasn't really abandoned so much as killed by PayPal.

The project used PayPal to gather downpayments, PayPal decided to lock the funds for months (almost a year or maybe longer IIRC) because they saw money coming in but no confirmation of goods coming out. And, you know, when it comes to big companies, no explanation is sufficient, you are guilty of something because some heuristic said so, so the funds were locked, legal threats didn't work (try threatening a company with the power of a small/medium country), and by the time they got their money back, key people who were going to work at a discount to cover key milestones had moved on.