The most unique feature that I like about the Nanonote is the non-brickable, Ingenic XBurst MIPS CPU. It's so easy to flash the chip over USB and not be afraid that you're bricking it. I mean, sure, you have the GCW-Zero which has a slightly faster CPU than the Nanonote, but there's no freaking keyboard, and there's no replaceable battery!
I will still keep my NanoNote, even though it's end of life. You know why? One day I bought mine off of Amazon and the battery was pretty much gone. It was dead in less than 3 months. I was able to replace the battery. If I can't do that with other devices, it becomes unusable entirely as a good portable device, period. Just try doing that when the GCW-Zero has its battery soldered in! Also, keyboard navigation makes more software on the device more usable. I can use vim to take notes more easily. Try doing that when all you have is a D-pad. I can just run [some] Dingoo A320 games with the appropriate libraries. It's a good replacement for even that handheld. And it's a real same to see this device go, and I hope there will be a good successor. Maybe I should look forward to the Neo900. I mean, it is ARM based, which is technically, in some objective ways better than MIPS, but I'll still keep my Nanonote as long as I can.... On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:43 AM, lee jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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