The N9 was one of the best designed phones I&#x27;ve ever seen [1]. It&#x27;s really frustrating Nokia did not follow the Maemo&#x2F;Meego path. As a developer I&#x27;m not so fond of smartphones because they are not little computers, but locked down devices. Nokia&#x27;s view was aligned with mine, as the first device of the series was an &quot;Internet Tablet&quot; (N770, released Q2 2005!)<p>Why they followed an erratic path instead of going full steam ahead with their Maemo&#x2F;Meego platform is quite well described by the article, but does not sound less stupid to an outsider. They had a device that was in some fronts superior to iPhone much earlier, but they got stuck with Symbian first and Microsoft afterwards.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;2506376&#x2F;nokia-n9-review" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;2506376&#x2F;nokia-n9-review</a>