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12:30 pm More of the same -- a rant copied from Facebook. Don't waste your time. ;-) - 10 comments
03:54 pm Why I don't use GNOME Shell - 14 comments

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waistcoatmark
12 Jan 2021, 15:47
Reflections on being both right and wrong about smartphones, 13 years ago
Yeah, I wanted an E90, but by 2007, being married, moving house and the beginnings of the financial crisis meant that I could no longer justify the cost of getting a new communicator each time they…
liam_on_linux
12 Jan 2021, 13:48
Reflections on being both right and wrong about smartphones, 13 years ago
Ha! No trace of the review itself online any more, even though PC Pro is still around, but I found some very negative comments:

http://www.grot.com/zoomer/zoomer-list/ogo-1Q1997/0009.html…
liam_on_linux
12 Jan 2021, 13:45
Reflections on being both right and wrong about smartphones, 13 years ago
I only ever had an E90, although I reviewed the Omnigo 700:
http://www.hp-collection.org/organizers/og700.html

The E90 was widely panned as being less functional than the 9000 range, but since I…
waistcoatmark
12 Jan 2021, 12:18
Reflections on being both right and wrong about smartphones, 13 years ago
That was one of the nice things about the Communicators. They had a phone UI on the outside of the clamshell. Not a very sophisticated one: barely capable of more than showing who was calling or the…
liam_on_linux
11 Jan 2021, 11:55
Reflections on being both right and wrong about smartphones, 13 years ago
Oh really?

I have a Gemini. It's a wonderful device. Android is a vast, sluggish, flabby thing compared to EPOC32, but then, all modern OSes are, and the Gemini has enough power to make it work. The…