{"id":200165,"date":"2025-12-23T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200165\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:04:07","slug":"the-nokia-n900-updated-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200165\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nokia N900 Updated For 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a long-obsolete Linux phone from 2009 be of use in 2025? <a href=\"https:\/\/yaky.dev\/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[Yaky] has a Nokia N900, and is giving it a go<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 2000s, Nokia\u00a0owned the mobile phone space. They had a smartphone OS even if they didn\u2019t understand app distribution, they had the best cameras, screens, antennas, the lot. They threw it all away with inept management that made late-stage Commodore look competent, Apple and Android came along, and now a Nokia is a rarity. Out of this mess came one good thing though, the N900 was a Linux-based smartphone that became the go-to hacker mobile for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>First up with this N900 is the long-dead battery. He makes a fake battery with a set of supercapacitors and resistors to simulate the temperature sensor, and is then able to power it from an external PSU. This is refined to a better fake battery using the connector from the original. The device also receives a USB-C port, though due to space constraints not the PD identifiers, making it (almost) modern.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was a popular hacker device, it\u2019s possible to upgrade the software on an N900. He\u2019s given it U-Boot, and now it boots Linux form an SD card and functions as an online radio device.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s impressive hackability and longevity for a phone, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2025\/08\/11\/smartphone-hackability-or-a-pocket-computer-that-isnt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">if only we could have more like it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can a long-obsolete Linux phone from 2009 be of use in 2025? [Yaky] has a Nokia N900, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-200165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}