Is there a worthy replacement for the Nokia N900?

Question

linux

Good afternoon! Not so long ago, my second Nokia N900 stopped "seeing" cellular networks - this made me think about buying a replacement. At the moment there are two options: buying a refurbished N900 from the Chinese or buying an Intex Aqua Fish (Jolla C on Sailfish OS) on ebay. Positive moments in the first variant: the presence of a hardware keyboard and a "familiar" OS; in the second - newer hardware, the ability to learn a new OS, but there is a serious minus in the form of a "huge" screen (5 inches).
Of course, the N950 would be an ideal replacement for the N900, but I'm not such a fanatic of these phones as to pay the cost of an average car for them.
I try to follow the newly emerging projects of Linux smartphones, but perhaps I missed something. Actually the requirements for the phone: Linux as an operating system, a screen of 4-4.5 inches, it is desirable to have a keyboard.

Answer 1

solder mikruhu
electronics360.globalspec.com/article/2213/nokia-n900-mobile-phone-teardown
just first try what's here
www.gsmforum.ru/threads/224991-SM-N900-(%D0%9D%D0%B5- %D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0 %B2%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%B2-%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8)

Answer 2

Option with Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition does not roll?

Answer 3

I myself went before that year with n900 and he is still alive. But there is no replacement.
Break all possible options was unfortunately upset.

Answer 4

I will give the closest options on the brake android
I myself go with Xperia Pro. He also sat gambling later with firmware. In parallel, almost a year later (in 2013) I bought xiaomi mi2s with a 3100 mAh battery, but without Claudia I am nowhere. Then, almost immediately, he sold xiaomi for the sake of the physical keyboard. Although MIUI really liked it. I put its port on Pro, red-eyed, suffered. Then I just resigned myself to the fact that the mobile is morally obsolete (1 core, 512 MB of RAM + swap on the brake SD card, because the mobile reader gives out 6-10 mb / s, although it costs a UHS-I class card with 30 mb / s), put gin2kitkat , which is based on 2.3.7 and Uzbek. The fastest option for this phone. Although there is NDed.13 firmware (15 was in beta, and so, apparently, it remained) - 4.0.4, fast, but damp and the author supported it inconsistently. It's even more annoying that the keyboardless "brother" Xperia Ray has a CTCaer core with an undervolt, which the Pro does not have. With this kernel some 4.0.
Looked at alternatives. Except for blackberry with its priv and classic shovel and those that are still coming out (also monoblocks with qverti), then there are only 3 options =)
1) Motorola Droid 4 (5 is not fate to come out) - 2 cores, 1 GB of RAM
2) Motorola Photon Q - in general, the same thing, only you need to collective farm with a SIM card
3) Samsung Relay 4G - the smartest of the three, but a typical Samsung "soap box" design from 2012
Good options as workhorses. I use my Pro on business. A couple of messengers like viber, cards, calls, letters, opera classic for the Internet. I want a powerful QWERTY =) or at least one of those three (namely a droid) and without dancing with the installation of the Russian language layout, tk. I have a Eurotest and I got stuck + did the engraving. Well, there is a rukeyboard and the layout is correct for 60% of the firmware.
PS: Okay, there is also a 4th option. Samsung Stratosphere II. Like relay 4g, only stratosphere II