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Speaking of failed mobile computing systems, of my favorite failed (and in my opinion underrated ) technologies is the Nokia N900: This bulky thing was a whole computer running a linux distribution, had a physical keyboard and a terminal application. It was basically a nerd's wet dream, and you can find a lot of cool proof of concepts on the web. Unfortunately it had a lot of shortcomings: a resistive touchscreen, a stylus, it was twice as thick as an iPhone, had no app store (apt-get doesn't count) and very few apps to speak of (desktop linux applications don't count either  ). Had it been slightly more polished and more user-friendly - the N9 was a step in the right direction but too late - it would have been a serious iPhone competitor instead of a nerd's substitute.
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