Quite sad btw to hear about the nanonote's end of life btw. Really
quite a useful device for something so small! Though I guess now
really instead of looking to the past it is time to look to the
future. If there is to be any sort of nanonote successor - or even
something completely different what could that be? What device is it?
What does it look like?
I read through the individual posts in feburary ("Nanonote End of
life"). I think one thing that struck me and I apologise as I'm about
to go off topic is something that I went through a little while ago,
namely with trying to buy a new 'phone.
It's really hard (if not impossible) to find a open/free phone to use!
Can discount microsoft and apple straight away as they are totally
closed. Android is partly closed. The hardware in android's case more
than likely needs binary blobs as well.
That leaves a few others -- firefox os, ubuntu touch, Neo900 and
soforth. Though even these have their problems. Neo900 looks good but
I can't see it selling much with a price tag in the order of E500-700
(That's what about $600-800?). That then leaves firefox and ubuntu --
though who knows how open and free their hardware is? And if the
hardware is, the software might not be -- Firefox OS if you try to
root it you loose your warranty on your phone (
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/967076 ) . Plus firefox os
supports advertising (*yuk*) and "in-app" advertising (*double-yuk*).
Not sure about ubuntu touch though what if they do the same? Where
does it end? Spyware in ubuntu touch and Firefox OS because of ad$?
I apologise about that mini rant. But I guess what I'm trying to say
is maybe there's a possibility there. Maybe there are people out there
who what a phone, don't want to be spied on, want it open and don't
want to bank raid fort knox to own one. If firefox os can run on
slower older hardware why can't some sort of (for example) nanonote
successor? Prof. eben moglen launched the freedombox a few years
back, maybe now we need a freedomphone? Could that be an idea?
Just a thought though. Was just thinking aloud -- maybe the successor
of nanonote dosen't have to be a clamshell type device.
Incentally FYI in the end I *downgraded* my phone to an older non-smartphone!
ljones
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