Somehow got talking at work today about the Nokia N9. I owned one, and I really wanted to like it (and apparently WIkipedia said it was launched to 'critical acclaim') but I just remember it being a bit mediocre.
Coming from an iPhone 3GS, it felt bulky and the touchscreen a bit unresponsive. Other parts seemed flimsy: I remember the SIM card slot cover broke almost as soon as I started using it.
The browser rendering engine was slow and clunky for the time.
No major developers bothered porting their software to MeeGo, of course. And this was the era when native apps on iOS/Android were truly important: sites that worked well as web apps were not really a thing (no matter how hard Apple tried): internet connections were slow and unreliable enough that e.g. maps were better off cached. Not having access to those apps felt like a huge step back, back further than the later Series 60 v 3 phones.
But hey at least I could run a terminal on my phone!
After a while (weeks? months?) I gave mine to a friend and went back to (I think) Android before iOS again; there was no way I was going to use a Windows phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9
#N9 #MeeGo