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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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328 points yaky | 5 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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seba_dos1 ◴[12 Dec 25 01:02 UTC] No.46239655[source]▶
Why go through that device-breaking battery dance when you can still get a BL-5J battery pretty much everywhere?

Booting from an SD card, while possible, is rather impractical on N900 because it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover.

The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. I have to replace its screen though, as recently it took some damage in my pocket and got a small crack in its bottom middle. Touch still works perfectly though, so I'm not in a hurry :D

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j16sdiz ◴[12 Dec 25 01:26 UTC] No.46239809[source]▶
> The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone.

It soon won't be. 3G and 2G network are being depreciated quickly around the world

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1. secult ◴[12 Dec 25 09:37 UTC] No.46242442[source]▶
In Europe we keep 2G as a failsafe, deprecating only 3G.
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2. gbil ◴[12 Dec 25 10:10 UTC] No.46242630[source]▶
nope, check the link I posted in another comment: https://onomondo.com/blog/2g-3g-sunset-2/#europe

please note that the list is not fully up to date, eg. in Germany Voda and Telekom have said that they will sunset 2G in summer 2028.

3. SahAssar ◴[12 Dec 25 10:10 UTC] No.46242632[source]▶
Not true, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Phase-out

Many countries/carriers in europe have already shut down 2G, many will shut it down in 2027. A few will keep it a few years more.

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4. officialchicken ◴[12 Dec 25 11:01 UTC] No.46242942[source]▶
It's a hot mess too. When you have an American carrier / phone number on an international plan and they shut down all radios in the case of an emergency in the EU, you still get 2G/3G service abroad while everyone's phones around you is dead.
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5. SahAssar ◴[12 Dec 25 11:18 UTC] No.46243046{3}[source]▶
What do you mean? They are shutting down the radio transceivers for 2G/3G, how would an American number/carrier get a signal in countries that have shut down their 2G/3G networks? Or are you talking about plans to do direct-to-cell satellite service, cause none of those are 2G/3G as far as I can tell?

The whole point is to free up spectrum, how would that work if that spectrum is still in use for the American carriers in countries that shut down the service for domestic use? Why would service be maintained for such a niche usecase?