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The N9 was so good. Meego was great, the all-swipe, no-buttons interface was way ahead of iOS and Android at the time. The hardware with its subtley curved scre

by Nition 7y ago

The N9 was so good. Meego was great, the all-swipe, no-buttons interface was way ahead of iOS and Android at the time. The hardware with its subtley curved screen was perfectly designed around it. The phone was the right size. I might still be using mine if it didn't have an unfortunate bug, which always came back eventually, where SMS messages would show up under the wrong person. Nokia said they'd support it until 2015 but that didn't happen, I think the last update was in 2012. The community made some fixes for other bugs, but not for that one.

oblio 7y ago
The Meego interface is better than what I have in my Android 10 phone... Those gestures are so awkward and bolted on. I haven't used an iPhone with gesture navigation but I imagine their navigation is only marginally better, also being bolted on later.
- abdulmuhaimin 7y ago
  it is better. N9/Meego was designed with those gestures as the main navigation of the OS. So it somehow feel intuitive and natural to use it. In comparison the Android gesture is nice, buts its just a nice extra imo. I would probably still use N9 as my 2nd phone if its not broken.
masklinn 7y ago
> The N9 was so good. Meego was great, the all-swipe, no-buttons interface was way ahead of iOS and Android at the time. Sounds like it ripped off webos, like everybody else.
- hajile 7y ago
  Not really. It uses a completely different paradigm. 3 screens next to each other. One is notifications, one is a list of installed programs, and the third is a scrollable list of open apps (somewhat similar to tabs in FF for Android). It was later used (and greatly refined) on the failed Blackberry QNX-based devices. SwipeUI winds up very usable on a phone, but basically unusable everywhere else. This is in stark contrast to the webOS paradigm which is much closer to a macOS desktop (dock at the bottom, menu always at the top left, settings always at top right, and modified/improved deck of cards "expose"). Because of this, scaling webOS to tablets or even desktops isn't difficult. If Steve Jobs had seen the webOS UI, the iPhone would definitely be using it today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQM8vVjuE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQM8vVjuE4
- abdulmuhaimin 7y ago
  maybe the idea is, but the execution is definitely different. If you used them both(Meego and WebOS) you would know how distinctly different they are.

by Nition 7y ago

oblio 7y ago

The Meego interface is better than what I have in my Android 10 phone... Those gestures are so awkward and bolted on. I haven't used an iPhone with gesture navigation but I imagine their navigation is only marginally better, also being bolted on later.

abdulmuhaimin 7y ago
it is better. N9/Meego was designed with those gestures as the main navigation of the OS. So it somehow feel intuitive and natural to use it. In comparison the Android gesture is nice, buts its just a nice extra imo. I would probably still use N9 as my 2nd phone if its not broken.

masklinn 7y ago

> The N9 was so good. Meego was great, the all-swipe, no-buttons interface was way ahead of iOS and Android at the time. Sounds like it ripped off webos, like everybody else.

hajile 7y ago
Not really. It uses a completely different paradigm. 3 screens next to each other. One is notifications, one is a list of installed programs, and the third is a scrollable list of open apps (somewhat similar to tabs in FF for Android). It was later used (and greatly refined) on the failed Blackberry QNX-based devices. SwipeUI winds up very usable on a phone, but basically unusable everywhere else. This is in stark contrast to the webOS paradigm which is much closer to a macOS desktop (dock at the bottom, menu always at the top left, settings always at top right, and modified/improved deck of cards "expose"). Because of this, scaling webOS to tablets or even desktops isn't difficult. If Steve Jobs had seen the webOS UI, the iPhone would definitely be using it today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQM8vVjuE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQM8vVjuE4
abdulmuhaimin 7y ago
maybe the idea is, but the execution is definitely different. If you used them both(Meego and WebOS) you would know how distinctly different they are.