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The N9 was one of the best designed phones I've ever seen [1]. It's really frustrating Nokia did not follow the Maemo/Meego path. As a developer I'm not so fond

by nextos 11y ago

The N9 was one of the best designed phones I've ever seen [1]. It's really frustrating Nokia did not follow the Maemo/Meego path. As a developer I'm not so fond of smartphones because they are not little computers, but locked down devices. Nokia's view was aligned with mine, as the first device of the series was an "Internet Tablet" (N770, released Q2 2005!) Why they followed an erratic path instead of going full steam ahead with their Maemo/Meego platform is quite well described by the article, but does not sound less stupid to an outsider. They had a device that was in some fronts superior to iPhone much earlier, but they got stuck with Symbian first and Microsoft afterwards. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review

Aoyagi 11y ago
Well, the last Symbian devices weren't supposed to be locked down. Heck, there's even the Delight fork. http://n8delight.blogspot.co.uk/ http://n8delight.blogspot.co.uk/ At the time of PW 808 the OS was on the level of iOS, but nobody cared then, not even Nokia (the 808 wasn't really advertised, and was hard to get...).
hobarrera 11y ago
Have you followed Jolla? Jolla's phone is a true N9 successor, and far from being locked down.
- trm42 11y ago
  They have done awesome job but the Jolla Phone is old (and was low-end even when it was published compared to its price) and their tablet crowdsourcing project suffered quite badly as they lost some other funding for a moment and their device manufacturers sold the devices elsewhere as Android devices. Basically Jolla has promised to refund the crowdsourcing funds within this year, but still it was big setback for the project. I've tested the tablet and it was surprisingly solid in H/W and S/W sense. Just hoping they'll survive and can get meaningful market share somehow. Kudos to them anyway.

by nextos 11y ago

Aoyagi 11y ago

Well, the last Symbian devices weren't supposed to be locked down. Heck, there's even the Delight fork. http://n8delight.blogspot.co.uk/ http://n8delight.blogspot.co.uk/ At the time of PW 808 the OS was on the level of iOS, but nobody cared then, not even Nokia (the 808 wasn't really advertised, and was hard to get...).

hobarrera 11y ago

Have you followed Jolla? Jolla's phone is a true N9 successor, and far from being locked down.

trm42 11y ago
They have done awesome job but the Jolla Phone is old (and was low-end even when it was published compared to its price) and their tablet crowdsourcing project suffered quite badly as they lost some other funding for a moment and their device manufacturers sold the devices elsewhere as Android devices. Basically Jolla has promised to refund the crowdsourcing funds within this year, but still it was big setback for the project. I've tested the tablet and it was surprisingly solid in H/W and S/W sense. Just hoping they'll survive and can get meaningful market share somehow. Kudos to them anyway.