Well, on the flip side, my first smartphone was a Palm Prē, and I even installed the custom kernel to overclock it.
Still have it in a box somewhere too. That was such a great phone.
Now webOS is used by LG to spy on their smart TV customers.
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ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
It’s crazy to think this now (since I’m so heavily into free software) but I actively chose a Windows Phone for my first smartphone, and thought it would take over the market from iOS and Android.
To be fair, it did have some cool features: it let you aggregate all the different ways of contacting people into one interface (the dream of many a tech person since the beginning of time!), it had a connection with facebook so you could see status updates/photos from your friends (in the contacts app of all places!), and I thought the live tiles and design language were really cool.
Despite even my hatred of Microsoft, I still have fond memories of that phone.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
turmacar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tiles and the metro interface in general were a really good idea. Kind of a shame everything’s consolidated around iPhone’s icon system instead. I remember being impressed with my mom’s, but it was such a flash in the pan and had so little 3rd party app support I never ended up getting one.
You could do something similar with widgets I suppose.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I still believe my windows phone had the best UI of any smartphone I’ve used