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by heavyset_go 1872 days ago
From the same era, I had Nokia's N770, N810 and N900. All three were based on Linux, and they were great.

I also had the Palm Pre and Pre 2, both of which were based on Linux (and apps were made with HTML, CSS, and JS in 2009!), and those were also great.
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wjertyj 1872 days ago
Not only were the Maemo/Meego devices based on Linux, but they embraced a lot of desktop standards. Telephony/messaging all went through Telepathy, UI was GTK under Maemo, then QT under Meego. The app store was just an apt/dpkg frontend.
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h4waii 1872 days ago
Man I miss those days.

I've still got an N770, N810, 3x N900s and an N950 developer device that I run battery maintenance on every 4 or 5 months.

Had a Pre 2, and still have an HP Veer. Making modifications to the system to customize or change things was so easy and straight forward, I really miss this; though building LineageOS / AOSP for supported devices kinda fills this niche for me now.

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robolange 1872 days ago
After getting rid of my Freerunner, I had one of the the first Android phones (HTC?) briefly, then got a Nokia N900. I liked the OS, although it's my memory that it wasn't as fully open sourced as the OpenMoko. I did enjoy it, even though the device always felt too thick to be comfortable in my pocket, and the touchscreen cracked badly after a minor impact. I ended up using a cheap Nokia candybar phone for a year or so, before eventually getting another Android phone.

I wish Nokia had continued developing the Maemo OS.

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pabs3 1872 days ago
Maemo Leste continues to develop Maemo:

https://maemo-leste.github.io/

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