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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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366 points yaky | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | 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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1. aa-jv ◴[12 Dec 25 11:24 UTC] No.46243085[source]▶
I was always kind of dissuaded by the chunky, bar of soap nature of the Nokia devices. (But then again, I had a few OpenPandora to play with as well..)

I had high hopes for the Creative Labs Zii Egg back in those days, it seemed to me to be a better Linux-based phone-like device. What a world it was...