[isopede]

I have such fond memories of the Nokia N810.

I did my master’s thesis on that device. I had a custom hypervisor running a guest kernel, virtualized networking, and a buildroot userspace. I could SSH into the host N810, then SSH into the guest. I even virtualized the framebuffer at some point and got the “dancing baby” animation playing from the guest. It only ran at a couple frames per second, but it was _amazing_.

[theshrike79]

The only weird thing about it was that you couldn't charge a fully empty N810 with the micro(?) usb charger. It'd charge just enough to boot and then crash again, because it couldn't wake up far enough to negotiate a higher current with the charger.

Had to use a barrel plug to charge it.

Spent a very nervous and sweaty day figuring that out when I bought one used with no warranty or returns and it didn't boot properly =)

[ACCount37]

It sure is a weird thing, but yes, the first mobile devices that shipped with USB didn't really know how to charge off it.

[mghackerlady]

Which, to be fair to them, usb was never supposed to be a power delivery standard (at least not more than the 5 volts needed to power a mouse)

[theshrike79]

And now pretty much all of the portable devices in my house can be charged with 5V/2A USB :D