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GSN.CP wrote: it uses a forked version of android, which i suspect won't be of that interest to the general public
I suppose general public does not even care about which version of Android runs on their phone.
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The development of the phone started before Microsoft was interested in Nokia. They finished development and invested money. Now they have two options: Cancel the project or sell the phone and get some money back. This is not the first time that Nokia sells a product because it has been developed but was not really interested in supporting it for a longer period: Same story with the N9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9[^]) using the MeeGo OS and the PureView 808 using Symbian.
If you think about buying one, ask yourself: How long will the phone get updates?
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Jochen Arndt wrote: If you think about buying one, ask yourself: How long will the phone get updates?
And the other question: do you care? If it's cheap, and good, and (let's be honest) you will change it in a year or so, then why care if support stops at the end of the warrantee period?
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I would care. Because I would not buy a phone for just a year even when it is cheap like the Nokia X. Buying such devices for short times of usage is waste of resources.
Overall, everyone has to decide for himself.
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You wouldn't, but many do - look at the iPhone market, where the "current greatest model" is out of fashion by the end of the week.
I'm with you to a certain extent - my phone runs Windows Mobile 5, and was released in 2006, so I'm not exactly wasting resources here - but if it died, would lack of support bother me? No - I've never updated a phone, and never needed to. But...I carry my tablet with me everywhere, so I'd be more likely to replace my existing phone with a less intelligent device that just does calls and texts.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Super Lloyd wrote: WTF?
Sometimes, to sell, you have to go in the same direction of market trends.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Soon they will all be gone but we need to remember. clickity[^]
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Indeed: why museums such as the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust[^] are so important. Sadly, as the survivors pass there will be no one left who can give first hand accounts of the atrocities.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
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One of my greatest regrets is not being able to remember everything my great-uncle reminisced about... he fought in the "Great War" of 1914-18 with his two brothers, was gutted that he couldn't serve in WW2 due to the injuries he received in the first one. Told stories that don't get told in any books or shown in any museums. It's important that we remember the sacrifices, the pain, the senselessness of it all ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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CHill60 wrote: It's important that we remember the sacrifices, the pain, the senselessness of it all
Agreed and hopefully we will learn from our mistakes, but that may be asking to much looking at the caliber of todays leaders?
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Don't worry, Israel will keep the Holocaust always alive to justify its holocaust on the Palestinians.
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So how old was the oldest Gypsy who survived Hitlers camps?
Or the oldest queer pole, mentally handicapped or slav?
Just saying, its not all about jews you know.
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You anti-semite 
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100% with you on this one.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Quote: its not all about jews you know.
Of course not. But there has not been any group of people more harassed than the Jews. I do hear other "groups" complain a lot and their persecution is no where near what the Jews went through.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's because there are plenty of Jews left, other groups were completely wiped from the planet.
For example, the Christians didn't convert the Pagans, the exterminated them.
Or do we only have to remember recent atrocities?
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Quote: That's because there are plenty of Jews left, other groups were completely wiped from the planet.
Well sure. The holocaust was not the only time the Jews were "destroyed."
Quote: For example, the Christians didn't convert the Pagans, the exterminated them.
Which pagans?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Across Europe under the Holy Roman Empire. Humans have been complete bastards to different humans for as long as they have been on the planet, and it continues today, some get greater coverage or a greater write up in the history books.
Australia still has apartheid, but everyone lets them get on with it.
This century alone tens of millions have been displaced or killed around the world simply for being different to those with the biggest guns or pointiest sticks.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Agreed.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: ...there has not been any group of people more harassed than the Jews.
Oh really? The Congolese come to mind, that delightful King Leopold II of Belgium was a charmer, something between 2 and 15 million dead on his account [^]
None of following deserve being forgotten [^].
-- RP
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Quote: The Congolese come to mind, that delightful King Leopold II of Belgium was a charmer, something between 2 and 15 million dead
Are the Congolese still being abused? Remember, the holocaust was not the only time the Jews were destroyed.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Are the Congolese still being abused?
I take by your inference that the Jewish people are still being abused.
My bad, I hereby publicly recant on my posting.
-- RP
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Quote: I take by your inference that the Jewish people are still being abused.
No. But if you look throughout history, the holocaust was not the only time someone tried to eliminate them. It has happened many times.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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