liate 💾
Can we all agree that one of these with modern specs and, say, Plasma Mobile would be the /best pocketable computer ever/‽‽‽‽‽‽
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N950 https://hackers.town/media/jc1RcFFqB-tCaq4bcIw
Jul 4, 2017 at 2:20amWeb
Show threadHallå KittehJul 4, 2017
@liate I miss my physical QWERTY. These screen keyboards suck.
Show threadGadfly (-booq-)Jul 4, 2017

@clacke @liate Did you ever have the opportunity to use the Palm OS Graffiti (the original version)?

BEST handheld character input method. HANDS. DOWN. A joy to use, honestly.

Show threadliate 💾Jul 4, 2017
@gaditb @clacke Sadly, no, I have the misfortune to be a member of what could be called 'the smartphone generation', and was born in '99
Show threadHallå KittehJul 4, 2017
@gaditb @liate I used it and I liked it. I like physical QWERTY better.
Show threadHRH ginsterbuschJul 5, 2017
@liate @gaditb @clacke to happily (and randomly) chime in: I prefer q QWERTZ, as physical as it can get. https://kosmos.social/media/teXt1Awx1iigd5qsbzE https://kosmos.social/media/4U-f-b8zMdoHu6A65wo
Show threadHRH ginsterbuschJul 5, 2017
@liate @gaditb @clacke also, I'm strongly considering getting a BlackBerry keyone or passport, just for the fun of.using a physical.keyboard ;)
Show threadHallå KittehJul 4, 2017
@liate Just so that I'm being super clear on this: Would buy. Could pay at least 600 USD for one. Talking about the hardware aspect now: Modern smartphone plus QWERTY.

But dunno Plasma Mobile. I would want it to be able to run most Android apps at least.
Show threadliate 💾Jul 4, 2017
@clacke I /think/ that most current efforts to run mainline GNU/Linux on mobile (rather than just Android/Linux) use Halium <https://halium.org/> or similar to basically run Android alongside...
Show threadHallå KittehJul 4, 2017
@liate Oh! So that's about running GNU on Android rather than running Android under GNU. Haven't heard that before. I was thinking more of what Sailfish did with an alternative Dalvik implementation.
Show threadHallå KittehJul 4, 2017
@liate People are apparently running Sailfish on the old Xperia Pro, but the Alien Dalvik/Dalvik Turbo software Jolla uses is proprietary, so no F-Droid.

http://reviewjolla.blogspot.hk/2015/07/install-sailfish-os-on-sony-xperia-pro.html