{"slug": "maemo", "name": "Maemo", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.623, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-12-05", "latest": "2026-08-18", "why": "probably the best phone I had.  It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "probably the best phone I had.  It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://maemo.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Maemo"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 789655856, "item_id": 49353491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353491", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-08-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it was a wildly successful scene", "excerpt": "And in spite of Nokia being fundamentally in the dark, not really helping: it was a wildly successful scene. People were rabidly excited and doing incredible things with their devices, in cross-modal between phone/laptop/desktop ways. The core of technology had great interoperation points. It's weird because my whole point is that the freedesktop mentality means no one company ever is that important to the device. An", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tess's Android Wayland Compositor"}, {"id": 755525264, "item_id": 47220329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220329", "by": "dm319", "date": "2026-03-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "probably the best phone I had.  It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current.", "excerpt": "We need this, an alternative to Apple and Google. I guess this is a descendent of my 16 year old Nokia N900, and probably the best phone I had. It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current. It also had a built in, full, terminal.", "context": "", "use_case": "phone operating system", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jolla phone \u2013 a full-stack European alternative"}, {"id": 738628608, "item_id": 46164288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164288", "by": "pessimizer", "date": "2025-12-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Maemo would have been a real contender", "excerpt": "You probably never used Maemo, whose UI (and also Palm's WebOS UI) were ripped off for later versions of Android and iOS, which wasn't even multitasking yet. Literally hired the same people to do them. Jolla started with the FOSS parts of Maemo but went proprietary. If Nokia hadn't been intentionally destroyed by its board in a romance with Microsoft cash, through a Canadian snake, Maemo would have been a real conten", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["phone operating system"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313068", "title": "Tess's Android Wayland Compositor", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216037", "title": "Jolla phone \u2013 a full-stack European alternative", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162368", "title": "Jolla Phone Pre-Order", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 789655856, "item_id": 49353491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353491", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-08-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it was a wildly successful scene", "excerpt": "And in spite of Nokia being fundamentally in the dark, not really helping: it was a wildly successful scene. People were rabidly excited and doing incredible things with their devices, in cross-modal between phone/laptop/desktop ways. The core of technology had great interoperation points. It's weird because my whole point is that the freedesktop mentality means no one company ever is that important to the device. An", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tess's Android Wayland Compositor"}, {"id": 755525264, "item_id": 47220329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220329", "by": "dm319", "date": "2026-03-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "probably the best phone I had.  It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current.", "excerpt": "We need this, an alternative to Apple and Google. I guess this is a descendent of my 16 year old Nokia N900, and probably the best phone I had. It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current. It also had a built in, full, terminal.", "context": "", "use_case": "phone operating system", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jolla phone \u2013 a full-stack European alternative"}, {"id": 738628608, "item_id": 46164288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164288", "by": "pessimizer", "date": "2025-12-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Maemo would have been a real contender", "excerpt": "You probably never used Maemo, whose UI (and also Palm's WebOS UI) were ripped off for later versions of Android and iOS, which wasn't even multitasking yet. Literally hired the same people to do them. Jolla started with the FOSS parts of Maemo but went proprietary. If Nokia hadn't been intentionally destroyed by its board in a romance with Microsoft cash, through a Canadian snake, Maemo would have been a real conten", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"}]}