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by imp0cat 192 days ago
Have you seen the Jolla preorder? It was on hn a few days ago. That is the spiritual successor of the N9XX line.

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

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I don't see any keyboard or stylus in that Jolla.

For me that is not even in the same league than the N900.

There is the Gemini PDA from 2018 which has a physical keyboard. I heard it was mostly a disappointment.

There was another phone with keyboard around the same time, but I forgot the name. That was claimed to be very much in the spirit of the N950 and its cancelled follow-up, the Nokia Lauta.

All with Sailfish, the spiritual successor of Meamo/Meego from Nokia.

Mostly a disappointment? The keyboard is fantastic. I can tell because I have a Cosmo Communicator (successor with 4G) and Astro Slide (successor with slide mechanic and 5G). The keyboard of these is great, but... they got barely no support, and the company who build these is like AWOL. Either way, like the GPD Pocket series, the keyboard is larger compared to the Nokia N900 (3G) and Nokia N810 (WLAN only)

> There was another phone with keyboard around the same time, but I forgot the name. That was claimed to be very much in the spirit of the N950 and its cancelled follow-up, the Nokia Lauta.

Probably F(x)tec and their successors. Those have a similar small keyboard as Nokia N900 and Nokia N810

There's also the Hackberry. This device uses a real Blackberry keyboard, with custom firmware. It works together with a 3D printed case, and a RPi CM5. This keyboard, while small, is very ergonomic.

I loved my N9. But i'm somewhat hesitant on preordering that one. I need wireless charging.. And i still dont really get if Android-apps actually work or not, i.e. swedish Bank-Id/Swish etc.
I'd actually prefer one running a normal Linux. It's a travesty that certain things in daily life require Android or iOS, and that's a fight I'll keep fighting, but the idea of a tiny Linux laptop in my pocket is just so tempting.
Sure i can join you on the barricade, but i still want to function in a society :(
Sure. And for that I plan to keep a sterile second phone with the stuff that requires that.
Here you can see Sailfish OS banking app compatibility: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/banking-apps-on-sailfish-os/1...
You can have another device for your banking.
I think this is the way. The Jolla device does have some Android compatibility layers, but I am sure banking apps will not like that.
It's excciting, but I saw a review of a pre-release c2 on youtube [0] the other day, and it seemed extremely slow in the interactions. Otherwise, it seems like a cool device.

[0] https://youtu.be/5titW5dclwg

The C2 is a different device than the new one linked above, which was way more affordable (~250 Euro) with a 4G Unisoc SoC.
Promising! Thanks!
I haven't, and I don't need one, but I'm going to buy one anyway (though its likely not allowed on Australia networks sigh)