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by Nition 1967 days ago
> full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!)

Only two years behind the N9.
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girvo 1967 days ago
Which also had the unified notification/message centre too.

The N9 was so far ahead of its time it’s not even funny. Easily my favourite phone of all time.

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baybal2 1967 days ago
> unified notification/message centre too.

All of which also post-date first Ericsson phones, which UI later was later copied by Nokia, Siemens, and everybody else.

I do remember my R520 from 2001 had something similar.

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Spinfusor 1967 days ago
The N9 was only two years behind the Palm Pre!
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tempest_ 1967 days ago
Man WebOS was ahead of its time. Palm just couldnt put out a piece of hardware that wasnt riddled with defects.

I guess it lives on in LG TVs but for the year or so before that palm pre broke it was great.

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nwienert 1966 days ago
So far ahead it’s actually still a better UX than even today’s iOS, just phenomenally well done.
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skinnymuch 1966 days ago
As a sibling post says - I also still believe its UX and likely current responsiveness is better than anything out there now.

I would probably still use webOS if there was still minimal open source development, some phone to put it on (or I guess I’d be fine getting a Pre 3) and the App Store not being shut down with all apps gone. The homebrew apps weren’t really meant to replace the App Store if I recall.

A world where webOS has 5-10% market share as a stable 3rd place would be amazing.

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dleslie 1966 days ago
I've still got a Z22 that I charge once in a while, and it blows me away with how responsive and useful it is.

I'd probably still use it if calendar and notes sync were working. I should investigate...

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app4soft 1967 days ago
> Only two years behind the N9.

Symbian still alive![0,1,2] (Not sure about Maemoo/MeeGo)

[0] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive/issues/10

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/symbian/new

[2] https://github.com/search/?o=desc&q=symbian&s=updated&type=R...

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cycomanic 1966 days ago
A I miss my N9, in fact I would still be using it if the battery hadn't failed suddenly. The story behind axing the N9 still makes me shake my head, how could that have been something else than MS planting a trojan horse at the top of Nokia to take over their mobile business. The incompetence or malice displayed by Elop still makes me shake my head to this day.
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