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Re:Symbian Won by stiray on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:27PM (#23643109)
I loved symbian and the whole "java on phone" never seemed right to me. I would prefer having a linux phone - I dont ask for much - working camera, working calls, mms and sms, gps, bluetooth). I dont care for anything else.

All my hopes are now leaning into Cosmo Communicator( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator - please take care, I have jumped into this with "I will loose my money" mentality - I still dont trust, they will realize the linux part, but hope dies last), it reminds me of beloved Nokia Communicator and if they realize my conditions (camera, calls, mms, sms - gps already works same as bluetooth ) I will give my foot a very long swing and remove my Android phone (even if heavly modified) from my life.

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Re:Symbian Won by pabs3 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:47PM (#23648189)
PinePhone and Librem 5 are better options for Linux phones:

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Also, F(x)tec are making a keyboard based mobile device along the lines of Cosmo and N900.

https://www.fxtec.com/

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Re:Symbian Won by afandian on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:02PM (#23644949)
As an owner of a Gemini, the hardware is innovative and good enough, but the OS is really an afterthought. You can browse their current wiki and see how organised it is.

No disrespect to the team, it just seems like taking sufficient care of this is a bigger job than they have the resources for.

But I'm glad I backed the kickstarter, and would do the same for something similar in order to diversify a very un-diverse market.

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Re:Symbian Won by stiray on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:43AM (#23649684)
I agree, but they have announced initial voice call support for linux (update 78) and this is actually quite close to what I want :)
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Re:Symbian Won by ngcc_hk on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:48PM (#23658266)
Still cannot get back to linux. Now just an android phone with a keyboard.
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Re:Symbian Won by kccqzy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:06PM (#23644271)
> the whole "java on phone" never seemed right to me

I'm not sure which Java on phone you are referring to, the Android Java or the older J2ME. The older J2ME apps ran well in limited resources, but was also incredibly complicated to develop due to device fragmentation.

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Re:Symbian Won by ptman on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:08PM (#23645024)
I have one of planet's previous devices, the gemini. It's not very good. The software is some unpatched old android. And the available linux doesn't support very much.

I'll have to try the pinephone next, but I have much higher hopes for it.

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Re:Symbian Won by jessaustin on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:10PM (#23644306)
The indiegogo page seems to imply that they're shipping these devices. Have you not received yours? The simulated pictures look nice...
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Re:Symbian Won by stiray on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:45PM (#23644726)
I already have it, but it is usefull for me only as linux device (well until they release v22 firmware to mod it). But my main motive for buying it was linux/sailfish.
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