[fsflover]

> What made them interesting wasn't the hardware, though the full keyboard on the N900 was useful but the fact that it was Linux phone based on Debian complete with the ability to apt-get install whatever the hell you wanted.

Such phones exist today, too. Sent from my Librem 5.

[chriswarbo]

Indeed, I had a Freerunner back then (the N900 came out after, and I couldn't get its predecessors since they weren't phones, as the parent points out). It served me well for about a decade, and I've now upgraded to a Pinephone.