(Author here) Thanks for the interesting links! I agree that there is much that could be optimized. The choice to use vertex buffers was driven by the overarching goal of implementing the whole thing in GLSL. It really…
> Every German will upvote this comment Please stop generalizing people using their nationality. I am a German and I certainly do not agree with your views.
For someone who is still using the N900 as his main phone this is a great development. Altough the Jolla phone promises an equally open stack it sadly lacks the harware keyboard.
That is simply not true in my experience. The N900 screen is neither blurry nor barely responsive to finger touch. But the hardware is / was not the most interesting point about the N900 anyway.
This. I really would like a small netbook type ARM device which runs a normal Linux distribution and doesn't cheap out on battery capacity. The Samsung ARM Chromebook comes near but it could have a better display,…
Same here - but I hope that Jolla can produce a viable N900 replacement for the future. It seems to be the only Linux based Smartphone platform currently in development that offers and is based on a "normal" Linux…
The government may publicly take a stance against the NSA programs but in reality it not only wishes to, but is actually implementing simmilar programs in Germany (see "Bestandsdatenauskunft"). I doubt that any real…
Sounds like something that should be possible with http://unhosted.org/
I think so too - you normally don't need wifi etc. on such a device. The one I use is the original first one and I wouldn't use the newer ones. If I remember correctly they even need active cooling...
(Author here) Thanks for the interesting links! I agree that there is much that could be optimized. The choice to use vertex buffers was driven by the overarching goal of implementing the whole thing in GLSL. It really…
> Every German will upvote this comment Please stop generalizing people using their nationality. I am a German and I certainly do not agree with your views.
For someone who is still using the N900 as his main phone this is a great development. Altough the Jolla phone promises an equally open stack it sadly lacks the harware keyboard.
That is simply not true in my experience. The N900 screen is neither blurry nor barely responsive to finger touch. But the hardware is / was not the most interesting point about the N900 anyway.
This. I really would like a small netbook type ARM device which runs a normal Linux distribution and doesn't cheap out on battery capacity. The Samsung ARM Chromebook comes near but it could have a better display,…
Same here - but I hope that Jolla can produce a viable N900 replacement for the future. It seems to be the only Linux based Smartphone platform currently in development that offers and is based on a "normal" Linux…
The government may publicly take a stance against the NSA programs but in reality it not only wishes to, but is actually implementing simmilar programs in Germany (see "Bestandsdatenauskunft"). I doubt that any real…
Sounds like something that should be possible with http://unhosted.org/
I think so too - you normally don't need wifi etc. on such a device. The one I use is the original first one and I wouldn't use the newer ones. If I remember correctly they even need active cooling...