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Nokia N97 and N97 mini (2009)
the N97 was “a tremendous disappointment in terms of experience and quality” which resulted from “an unbelievable cycle of events that took far too long to repair and mitigate”. — Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s executive vice president at the time – Mobile Phone Museum
Another Watchlist
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” — Luis Buñuel
Retro Computer: ICE Felix HC91 with IF1 (1991)
Romanian computers were used in science academies, universities, factories and enterprises in China. Even today, Chinese scientists remember the Romanian Felix computers. — Xu Feihong
Retro Computer: ZX Spectrum (1982)
“I used to write my own sequencing programs on the Spectrum, believe it or not. I still built a lot of my own equipment. When I started out I didn’t have any money, so if I wanted to get anything different, I had to change what I had or make something.” — Richard James (Aphex Twin)
Chrome Extensions
RSS Feed Buttons Chrome Extension
Google could have done a much nicer job of taking care of RSS, but they didn’t do that. And they’re doing the same thing with the web today. It’s incredible. They’re doing it to the whole web. They’re doing it slowly and they put a lot of hype onto it. They make it sound like they’re doing good things. But in fact, what they’re doing is they’re going to shrink the web down to the part of the web that they can monetize. — Dave Winer
Google-less Youtube Embeds
“There are sections that break rather easily on his site as some of his media links back to YouTube which bars a person (depending on the country) from viewing.” — S-Config
Retro Laptop: Sony Vaio - VGN-9K2M (2003)
“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.” — Alan Perlis
Retro Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1501 (2006)
“It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference.” — Michael Dell
Retro Tablet: Compaq TC1100 (2004)
“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.” — Alan Perlis