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Wow, I had to abandon my N9 after all of my fixes including buying a new SIM holder failed. I still have my N9 and my N900. I really wish Nokia had stuck it out with the N9 OS a bit longer. It easily beat all of the Android phones at that time. I would still be using it if the CAs hadn't expired and the SIM holder wasn't horked.

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> I really wish Nokia had stuck it out with the N9 OS a bit longer

I think we have Stephan Elop to thank for that. I never really understood why Nokia didn't just focus on the market outside the US. Had they continued producing phones like the N9, I'm sure they could have retained a lot of market share in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

> I would still be using it if the CAs hadn't expired

I'm not sure whether all of the CAs had expired, but I wonder if it would be possible to get an updated package with up to date CAs. The main issue I have is that it can't negotiate an agreed upon cipher when trying to establish a TLS connection.

I'm still able to use the Firefox browser to browse a number of websites like Facebook and Reddit. Hacker news still works with the built-in browser. Facebook sometimes works with the default browser and the old subdomain reddit website will lock up the default browser in my experience (the current reddit website layout is a no-go).

I'm still using my N9, and I'm holding my SIM card in place using a big rubber band wrapped twice along the longer side of the phone :)

Lately the "main" button has been failing, and since tapping the screen doesn't get it out of sleep anymore, I can't pick up calls anymore. So to access the phone, I get out the SIM and re-insert it.

It's time to abandon it here too, but it was an excellent phone in use for almost 10y.

I don't look forward to the day I have to completely abandon it. I have mine set to show the screen when double tapping it (which still works better than my Nokia 7.2 Android phone).

> since tapping the screen doesn't get it out of sleep anymore, I can't pick up calls anymore.

Mine will show the the screen and prompt me to swipe up to answer the call. Does yours work in a different way, or is the touch system failing?

I thought long about buying another N9 second-hand, but in the meanwhile MeeGo/Harmattan has been abandoned, and I never succeeded with installing the Mer [0] project (revived Maemo/MeeGo successor). I'm using my phone regularly to program and run simple applications for my own use. For this I've used Tclkit [1] a lot on the N9 (and the N770).

I'm now more thinking about continuing that using AndroWish [2] instead (Tcl/Tk on Android).

My N9 in better times did exactly that when someone called, but now the screen stays black and nothing reacts (it still rings though). I don't know what causes this, because out of the sleep mode then touchscreen works fine. I have to pull out the SIM everytime as such, put it back in and log back into the network (and then often call back myself ofcourse ;)). Not going to bother anymore, but I suspect a software problem. It also started to crash/hang it's applications from time to time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo#Mer

[1] https://www.equi4.com/tclkit/

[2] https://www.androwish.org/

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