Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by ElCheapo on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:04AM
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How is the presence of an antenna in any way demonstrative of the general purpose computing capabilities of the N900 as opposed to "not pocketable PC" Androids? I believe that if I were to attach a USB radio module to my phone I could write an Android app to make use of it as a trasmitter.
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Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by rjsw on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @08:09AM
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The point of the FM transmitter was to be able to use the N900 with a car head unit to play music from the phone.
Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by freedomben on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @12:17PM
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Oh wow, that's a badass feature. I'm legit impressed (this is not sarcasm)
Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by rjsw on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @02:32PM
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There are FM dongles that plug into a headphone socket, but building it into the phone from the start says to me that Nokia really knew how people would want to use it.
Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by rowanG077 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:06AM
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If the point is you can transform an android device into a general purpose machine if you use unenumerable amounts of hardware addons and hacks. Then yes, of course you are right. It will be unuseable in practice which is generally what people want to do.