Comment by nextos

> That's why those OS were mostly used by geeks and power users, and "regular" users were using feature phones that "just work".

The N9, N900's successor, shipped with MeeGo 1.2 "Harmattan" and had the most simple and elegant UI I've ever seen on a mobile. The phone-UI combination was a masterpiece. But it was still Linux, with all power-user features under the hood.