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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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393 points yaky | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.385s | source
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sollewitt ◴[12 Dec 25 04:38 UTC] No.46240916[source]▶
The N900 was my peak “mobile computing is awesome” device.

I went to see District 9 in the cinema in Helsinki. Uh oh, the alien parts are only subtitled in Finnish and Swedish and my Finnish is not up to that.

I installed a BitTorrent client, found the release on Pirate Bay, successfully torrented just the subtitle file, and used an editor to read the subtitles for scenes with a lot of alien.

The N9 had much better UI, but there was something of the cyberpunk “deck” idea in that thing, it was great.

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girvo ◴[12 Dec 25 06:00 UTC] No.46241284[source]▶
Gosh I loved my Nokia N9. Such an amazing little phone, and it's depressing a little that I can't use them anymore where I live
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Sharlin ◴[12 Dec 25 06:57 UTC] No.46241552[source]▶
It was such an incredible phone. Easily rivaled the iPhones of the time and was light-years beyond any Android.
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1. girvo ◴[12 Dec 25 11:19 UTC] No.46243047[source]▶
N9, not the N900! Meego Harmattan was so much nicer for day to day usage