@davidgerard Really, “What could be more intuitive than a bash prompt?” Is the nerdiest thing ever. Intuitive for whom? I’m retired tech support, and I don’t know of any non-IT person who can cope with command line prompts. But there will definitely be an IT market for this.

@davidgerard IIRC, the Nokia N900 ran on a modified Debian Linux OS (?)… and I was gutted that I couldn’t get one from my UK mobile provider on contract. Part of me still is… https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/nokia-n900

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But can it run Doom?

@davidgerard wow... I need it! I'll pre order it. Please share the link.

@davidgerard hiram@hiramsgnuphone:~$ gpt "what's the commond to dial 911"

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I am gonna buy one if i can run pine to check my email, assuming of course I've correctly configured a socks proxy, and adjusted my routing tables appropriately.

@davidgerard You nearly had me. I would have believed this was serious but when there was no mention of rust, I knew it had to be fake.

@davidgerard It could even incorporate a rotary dial of some type that corresponds to particular numerical objects as the entry point, thus avoiding those irritating taps on a screen and not noticing you hit a 3 instead of a 2 when dialing a number.

@davidgerard but does it run vim?

Incidentally i currently monitor power statistics via an android terminal emulator...

@davidgerard Bravo! Except it needs Hayes modem control codes.

@davidgerard we finally get something good, and they ruin it in v2 by adding emacs.

A phone should need nothing more than ed

@davidgerard We have GNUPhone at home...
https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5926-sxmo-a-mobile-ui-for-hackers/
#sxmo

@davidgerard requires memory of the Hayes AT command set

@davidgerard need to know if it is on systemd or not.

@davidgerard I'd buy it...