Touchscreen keyboards in place of physical keyboards were a mistake.
@maddy bring back slide out keyboards!
@Chloe @maddy The Nokia N900 was the best phone I ever had! It could have used an extra row though, but I'd take its dinky 3 rows over no rows, thankyouverymuch.
@ozzelot Ooh, that looks like a neat device!
@maddy It ran maemo, a debian-based OS. I did some linux learning on it when nothing else was nearby. There was hope in the thing, squandered by the already clearly winning goopple duopoly, but hope nonetheless.
@maddy I guess Microsoft was a little bit of a player around the time I used my N900 the most (2012 - 13), but come on, WP had it way rough.
@ozzelot Really cool that it was its own sorta thing while Android was just starting to find its footing!
Windows Phone would've been cool if they didn't totally give up (and some of the larger app developers didn't collude to avoid the platform), but also, Microsoft - eww!

@maddy The N900 came from a somewhat long line of Nokia Internet Tablets and was the first and last phone to run Maemo*, the N9 and N950 ran Meego. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nokia_Internet_Tablet&useskin=vector

*not counting Maemo Leste, which is still in active development today

Nokia Internet Tablet - Wikipedia