ubuntu touch and firefox os showed great potential, one being backed by Canonical, the other being built using Web technologies (which is much like Tizen nowadays). It's sad to see both fade away. Although I still have some hope for the Sailfish OS.
What a said irony there is at the end of this video. Came here to see the development of Sailfish OS by the way. But you were like: it is difficult to survive in such a crowded mobile OS landscape. And at the moment we have 2 main ones. Hopefully we'll see more. I truly hope KDE Plasma Mobile thingy will become a bit more popular. Also, Ubuntu Touch isn't completely dead. It's still being supported by the community at UBPorts ;-). So it's kind of... On life support.
Blackberry OS10 is still incredibly usable... Even in 2020, using the built in Android runtime 4.3 emulation I can get a few popular android apps running such as Whatsapp, Messenger Lite and even Discord worked on my blackberry classic (although on discord voice chat didn't work but texting was fine)
Nothing wouldve changed, sysmbian at its core was just only good for low end hardware, its software was very limited compared to modern smartphone os's, they would have to put a insane amount of work to rewrite it totally which is imo just pointless.
@@Sohil876 nice but don't you think Symbian and windows phone could have developed with time like android and iOS. No one in gingerbread days thought that Android was gonna be more amazing as today.
@@sharishth yeah but like i said sysmbian was desined from its core for non touch devices and was really only good for low end hardware (current standards) if nokia rewrote it from scratch and consumers waited patiently when there are other os's much better already on market it wouldve like any os become something, but that would be just pointless and that just applies to any os, android from core was designed for touch screens and was aimed at future hardware so even when it was android cupcake 1.x (ive been using it from a while back) it was loads ahead of symbian anyways, the really good thing about android (and still is) it was free for manufacturers so brought the cost down even for consumers a lot and made possible for better hardware on lower price and its open source nature meant heaven for modders and power users, no way windows phone or sysmbian couldve competed with it. Windows phone was really a fail from the start, even after release there were many basic features that even symbian had it was missing and was closed source ofc, i never will understand why microsoft ditched a perfectly awesome os like windows mobile and started from scratch with win phone7 when android and ios were really dominant in the os race with being ahead of anything else, so they really didnt have any chance, as far as windows phone is concerned, im glad it failed, im not a fan of closed down os's.
Funny, in the past few days I had been wondering what were the differences between the many different mobile OS that popped up over the years. Very good and informative video, thanks.
From all the unique operating systems, I wish Sailfish would succeed the most. It has a pleasing look, quite intuitive to use & runs very smooth even on older stuff.
Not to mention the trackpad was its primary navigation tool; omitting it from the initial BB10 qwerty phones (stupidly isolating the BB10 Development Team from the experienced BBOS Development Team) split the market dooming BlackBerry.
im still missing my MAEMO5 experience... i have the n900 (purchased in 2009) single core (600mHz) and 1gb ram (256mb physical and 768 virtually/whatever that means!) and still it runs as good as last years flagships... the screen wasnt made of glass... but thats the only downside
Reliving the nostalgia of those classic Nokia days fuels my passion to develop my own mobile OS, bOS. I originally planned to base it on Android for simplicity and compatibility, but now I’m exploring the idea of building it independently-or even using Linux as a foundation. It’s a challenging journey, but the dream of creating something truly unique keeps me motivated!
Symbian os ruled the Market for years best os best battery life ,secure and fast i miss the time where you download themes and games , applications .. i Played Gameboy games in nokia Emulator or dosbox for symbian I even played Quake 3 pc Version on it...
i had high hopes on MeeGo but Nokia mistakenly abandoned it, then Ubuntu but manufacturers preferred Android. There must be alternatives to Android as it became more like a Google service only phone
@@resonanceofambition Copperhead is just Android, but modified for security. Still has Google's proprietary spyware. Just stops other people from spying on you.
Its kind of weird that i actually went through a few of these Symbian: Nokia C6 Asha: Nokia Asha Meego: Nokia N9 Bada: samsung wave(forgot which one) yes, i was a nokia fanboy. the battery life and camera was fantastic at the time. i was not disatisfied with them. battery is great too. i remember my nokia C6 lasting more than a few days on a single charge plus i have an extra battery so i didnt have problems with it.(i had a Nokia Lumia 720 which got jacked from me. it was my favorite phone too ) some of my past phones were Alcatel flash 2, Sony Xperia Neo V, Huawei GR5 2017, a free phone from a local service provider(the one with the T9 keyboard and black and orange screen), a something xpress music nokia phone, a random china phone immitation which acts like an iphone but is a slider(idk why i bought that lol) nokia C3(was just given to me) and a nokia phone which i forgot the name. it looks like a 2003 model with a camera. it has mms features and a realy tiny screen. i think it hast GPRS connection (LOL) it looks like a 3210.
Kinda a shame some of these failed and we ended up stuck with just android and ios I remember looking up to firefox os and bb10 hoping they'd succeed i wasn't around at symbian era but I remember sometime earlier this year (2019) i was looking around for info about symbian and i seen a user comment on an old news article about symbian from about i think 2010, the comment went on about how symbian wouldn't fail and how it would recover, unfortunete for the user behind that comment he was ended up very wrong and symbian eventually flopped entirely from my searching symbian looked like it was a decent system shame it had some bad luck around 2009-2012ish that caused it to die out (i wonder what changes in history it would take for symbian to have a different fate tbh) also speaking of alternate platforms (perticularly linux based ones) it might be worth taking a look at purisms librem 5, its a current in progress project and their goal is to make a pure linux based phone with privacy at its core Whether or not it'll succeed idk, but i am hopeful as it looks interesting
BadaOS is actually an interesting OS I owned a Samsung Jet and it had enough CPU power to make it boot into Android. I hacked my bootloader that it would permanently boot from SD Card and I had a beautiful Android 2.* / Cyanogenmod 7.1 phone that only had problems with FM Radio and the mobile data connection but after all, it was Android and that's what I really enojed while running this OS. It gave me enough time to save money for about 3 years and buy my first Android smartphone which was the LG E460 Optimus L5 II and it was running Android 4.0.1 Still own both of the phones but I don't use them anymore since they're too slow, I'm already owning an Xiaomi Smartphone with Android 9 and although I need a secondary phone, I gonna wait till Librem 5 Linux smartphone gets released
I have owned iOS and Android (currently using an iPhone). My take on the ideal OS is as follows: I want an Android OS device that gets immediate updates (and received major FEATURE updates for longer than 3 years). I loved Android and it’s customization (never grow bored of my device) but damn do they slow down after a year or so. And I really disliked not receiving updates after 2 years on my Galaxy devices.
I'm looking for a privacy, security-focused mobile OS. I am more sensitive to privacy than the Edward Snowden incident. The OS is good for open source. Which one is the best?
I would very much like the answer to this question, I hate the fact that I pay monthly for a gov spy that logs and records my movements, conversations, pictures, nothing is private anymore, fuck this planet!
Various Linux-based smartphone OS? Well Symbian and BlackBerry Isn't one of them. You mentioned BB10 but the device you showed is the one from old RIM days and it's closed source, the Bold with BBOS 7 based on Java. You even got Symbian wrong. It's based on closed source EPOC platform.
My favorite is Blackberry 10 OS... The gesturebased navigation and Hub are top notch! I kinda don't get why Blackberry switched to Android when their 10 OS had / or has, I'm stil using Z10 as my personal phone, an emulation layer that allowed to run Android applications. They even include Amazon App Store... Sure they have their suite apps on Android but they don't feel so polished and smooth running as on 10 OS.
powerful os is meego when Nokia ended partnership with intel and linux foundation then intel linux foundation and Samsung tried to make a os like meego which named as Tizen but they failed in smartphones but in other Samsung devices tizen is performing good
Your channel seems to be focusing on the UI instead of the overall strengths and weaknesses of each OS. The UI does not really matter since we can always customize with launchers. I would be more curious to know what makes them unique beyond what swiping does.
Meego is so ahead of its time, the icons, the gesture, the aod, the multitasking and the whole theme of it.
I know because I have an Nokia N9
Meego was the best man.
Better than most of the others.
Am i the only one who feels sad and sympathetic to all these dead os.?. 😥
Not alone
I don't!
Best two survived
You are not alone
yeah, imagine worker's hardship
ubuntu touch and firefox os showed great potential, one being backed by Canonical, the other being built using Web technologies (which is much like Tizen nowadays). It's sad to see both fade away. Although I still have some hope for the Sailfish OS.
Although FirefoxOS is getting a revival with FinnOS
What a said irony there is at the end of this video. Came here to see the development of Sailfish OS by the way.
But you were like: it is difficult to survive in such a crowded mobile OS landscape. And at the moment we have 2 main ones. Hopefully we'll see more. I truly hope KDE Plasma Mobile thingy will become a bit more popular. Also, Ubuntu Touch isn't completely dead. It's still being supported by the community at UBPorts ;-). So it's kind of... On life support.
@@deantech8103 Arch Linux is not a 'KDE distro' bruh it's just a minimal base. It's not designed around any of the major desktop environments
Blackberry OS10 is still incredibly usable... Even in 2020, using the built in Android runtime 4.3 emulation I can get a few popular android apps running such as Whatsapp, Messenger Lite and even Discord worked on my blackberry classic (although on discord voice chat didn't work but texting was fine)
poor symbian..if only they can hold little bit longer and taste snapdragon processor
True....
Have you played 7 days Salvation
For Symbian
Nothing wouldve changed, sysmbian at its core was just only good for low end hardware, its software was very limited compared to modern smartphone os's, they would have to put a insane amount of work to rewrite it totally which is imo just pointless.
@@Sohil876 nice but don't you think Symbian and windows phone could have developed with time like android and iOS. No one in gingerbread days thought that Android was gonna be more amazing as today.
@@sharishth yeah but like i said sysmbian was desined from its core for non touch devices and was really only good for low end hardware (current standards) if nokia rewrote it from scratch and consumers waited patiently when there are other os's much better already on market it wouldve like any os become something, but that would be just pointless and that just applies to any os, android from core was designed for touch screens and was aimed at future hardware so even when it was android cupcake 1.x (ive been using it from a while back) it was loads ahead of symbian anyways, the really good thing about android (and still is) it was free for manufacturers so brought the cost down even for consumers a lot and made possible for better hardware on lower price and its open source nature meant heaven for modders and power users, no way windows phone or sysmbian couldve competed with it. Windows phone was really a fail from the start, even after release there were many basic features that even symbian had it was missing and was closed source ofc, i never will understand why microsoft ditched a perfectly awesome os like windows mobile and started from scratch with win phone7 when android and ios were really dominant in the os race with being ahead of anything else, so they really didnt have any chance, as far as windows phone is concerned, im glad it failed, im not a fan of closed down os's.
It was buggy, but not bad OS
Funny, in the past few days I had been wondering what were the differences between the many different mobile OS that popped up over the years. Very good and informative video, thanks.
For me Meego is the best !! :)
me to
me too
1.2 meego
the good old times, even android manufacturers had different skins, now all are turning to the same material design looking stock android,
It depends... Personally, I was really annoyed because of the inconsistency, everything looked like a big mess with various styles, icons etc.
From all the unique operating systems, I wish Sailfish would succeed the most. It has a pleasing look, quite intuitive to use & runs very smooth even on older stuff.
Make a massive video on all mobile OS comparison
Android, ios, symbian, bada, tizen, windows phone old n new, Firefox, unbuntu, blackberry, palm etc
Is there a chance that you can review the latest Sailfish OS 3?
Man I remember I had a Samsung wave 525 that ran BadaOS, and it was SO good, it still works !
the nokia N9’s software and hardware doesn’t look outdated even today, almost a decade later.
The BlackBerry bold had BBOS 7 not 10
Bb10 can be game changing but blackberry stopped
I used BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Passport they offered very unique features, like swipe up to minimize an app and touch enabled physical keyboard.
Not to mention the trackpad was its primary navigation tool; omitting it from the initial BB10 qwerty phones (stupidly isolating the BB10 Development Team from the experienced BBOS Development Team) split the market dooming BlackBerry.
That specific BlackBerry runs OS7 though, which was something of its thing instead of QNX
Sailfish os is best
im still missing my MAEMO5 experience... i have the n900 (purchased in 2009) single core (600mHz) and 1gb ram (256mb physical and 768 virtually/whatever that means!) and still it runs as good as last years flagships... the screen wasnt made of glass... but thats the only downside
This is your daily dose of Recommendation
Unique novely smartphone OS
Linux smartphone OS yay
Android is a version of Linux
@@pokeguy_ ikr. But it's heavily modified. Not even able to run arm or x86 Linux binary if not wrong. Please this must be wrong
My favorite portable Linux system back in the day was Maemo OS
probably want a nokia n9 because of Meego Harmattan OS
Why would you show bbos 7 instead of bbos 10?
Wow, you have all on your collection
so...
when u purchase and review Sailfish OS device?
i bought one from india for less than $100 before (intex aquafish)
Reliving the nostalgia of those classic Nokia days fuels my passion to develop my own mobile OS, bOS. I originally planned to base it on Android for simplicity and compatibility, but now I’m exploring the idea of building it independently-or even using Linux as a foundation. It’s a challenging journey, but the dream of creating something truly unique keeps me motivated!
Symbian os ruled the Market for years best os best battery life ,secure and fast i miss the time where you download themes and games , applications .. i Played Gameboy games in nokia Emulator or dosbox for symbian
I even played Quake 3 pc Version on it...
I was also fan of themes apps and pre loaded apps of Nokia's symbian but sadly it is past now. I am crying in android
symbian we will miss you so much 😢
Great collection bro
i had high hopes on MeeGo but Nokia mistakenly abandoned it, then Ubuntu but manufacturers preferred Android. There must be alternatives to Android as it became more like a Google service only phone
Interesting to see Tizen still living in smartwatches and TVs
When You Find Android Pie Like Recents with Dock In One Of These Old OS😆😆
Nokia 501... my dream phone STILL in 2019. (I use a GS7) just want a 501
Nice to see minimalist people here. I wish I had the Nokia 501. It's better than my phone XD
I learnt Tizen had many security loopholes is it true?
You should include kai os also
one of the best reviews.i enjoyed this trip back,
upvote for meego which is the best ever
I want an OS for my phone I can trust. I'm willing to give up functionality for having all software Open Source.
Ios
@@resonanceofambition Copperhead is just Android, but modified for security. Still has Google's proprietary spyware. Just stops other people from spying on you.
@@WIImotionmasher Yeah, well. Apart from Lineage there is very little to find. Besides, nothing stopping you from removing it.
Try ubports (formerly Ubuntu Touch). It works very well if you can live with limited apps.
It's not Asha OS. It's Symbian S40 I believe.
There was an htc device with BREW OS
I have an old samsung j5. Can you recommend some linux os. And a tutorial to install? Thankssssss
Does anyone know what make the transparent Firefox is?
Hi ! Bro.
Im from vietnam ! So ... Can you name all the devices on the table? please ! Bro !!!
Rip windows (Nokia lumia 820)!!! Love their live tiles and secure clean smooth experience!
Do you think Asha or MeeGo OS will work on Sony Ericsson Satio U1i ( runs on Symbian OS)? ...Thanks
Its kind of weird that i actually went through a few of these
Symbian: Nokia C6
Asha: Nokia Asha
Meego: Nokia N9
Bada: samsung wave(forgot which one)
yes, i was a nokia fanboy. the battery life and camera was fantastic at the time. i was not disatisfied with them. battery is great too. i remember my nokia C6 lasting more than a few days on a single charge plus i have an extra battery so i didnt have problems with it.(i had a Nokia Lumia 720 which got jacked from me. it was my favorite phone too )
some of my past phones were
Alcatel flash 2, Sony Xperia Neo V, Huawei GR5 2017, a free phone from a local service provider(the one with the T9 keyboard and black and orange screen), a something xpress music nokia phone, a random china phone immitation which acts like an iphone but is a slider(idk why i bought that lol) nokia C3(was just given to me) and a nokia phone which i forgot the name. it looks like a 2003 model with a camera. it has mms features and a realy tiny screen. i think it hast GPRS connection (LOL) it looks like a 3210.
I have an ZTE Axon M with Windows 7 🤘🤘
I envy you
Kinda a shame some of these failed and we ended up stuck with just android and ios
I remember looking up to firefox os and bb10 hoping they'd succeed
i wasn't around at symbian era but I remember sometime earlier this year (2019) i was looking around for info about symbian and i seen a user comment on an old news article about symbian from about i think 2010, the comment went on about how symbian wouldn't fail and how it would recover, unfortunete for the user behind that comment he was ended up very wrong and symbian eventually flopped entirely
from my searching symbian looked like it was a decent system shame it had some bad luck around 2009-2012ish that caused it to die out (i wonder what changes in history it would take for symbian to have a different fate tbh)
also speaking of alternate platforms (perticularly linux based ones) it might be worth taking a look at purisms librem 5, its a current in progress project and their goal is to make a pure linux based phone with privacy at its core
Whether or not it'll succeed idk, but i am hopeful as it looks interesting
I'm gonna miss my old BlackBerry Curve 9220 (the 2G EDGE variant of the 9320) so much.
Elements of all of these OS' live on in Android and iOS. Looking forward to seeing Huawei's new Ark OS.
Maybe it could be very good OS
Windows 7 Theme on the ZTE Axon M w/Swiftpoint GT Bluetooth Wireless Mouse🤘
Plasma mobile?
I've had FirefoxOS phone as well as SailfishOS Jolla phone.
BadaOS is actually an interesting OS
I owned a Samsung Jet and it had enough CPU power to make it boot into Android. I hacked my bootloader that it would permanently boot from SD Card and I had a beautiful Android 2.* / Cyanogenmod 7.1 phone that only had problems with FM Radio and the mobile data connection but after all, it was Android and that's what I really enojed while running this OS.
It gave me enough time to save money for about 3 years and buy my first Android smartphone which was the LG E460 Optimus L5 II and it was running Android 4.0.1
Still own both of the phones but I don't use them anymore since they're too slow, I'm already owning an Xiaomi Smartphone with Android 9 and although I need a secondary phone, I gonna wait till Librem 5 Linux smartphone gets released
Bada is sooo stupid and hard for app devs
I have owned iOS and Android (currently using an iPhone). My take on the ideal OS is as follows:
I want an Android OS device that gets immediate updates (and received major FEATURE updates for longer than 3 years).
I loved Android and it’s customization (never grow bored of my device) but damn do they slow down after a year or so. And I really disliked not receiving updates after 2 years on my Galaxy devices.
Forgot Windows Phone 8, I had two of those phones. Loved the tiles.
Still love the OS the J2me Sony Ericssons had.
Here to shed a tear for webOS, the single most innovative mobile OS of the early smartphone era.
ubuntu mobile seemed so good, what went wrong...
I'm looking for a privacy, security-focused mobile OS. I am more sensitive to privacy than the Edward Snowden incident. The OS is good for open source. Which one is the best?
I would very much like the answer to this question, I hate the fact that I pay monthly for a gov spy that logs and records my movements, conversations, pictures, nothing is private anymore, fuck this planet!
Great video. ❤ Thanks😊
Where is Nokia N900 with Maemo?
I too am trying to build such a nice collection
Would love to load up Ubuntu mobile on some old devices - does anyone have the image?
You could try ubports, it is still supported as of now
I miss Asha :( it was cute
For j7 max sm-g615f ??
Various Linux-based smartphone OS? Well Symbian and BlackBerry Isn't one of them. You mentioned BB10 but the device you showed is the one from old RIM days and it's closed source, the Bold with BBOS 7 based on Java.
You even got Symbian wrong. It's based on closed source EPOC platform.
To be honest tizen os is actually android os heavily skinned by Samsung.... It natively supports android apps
Yes, I used a tizen phone, Samsung galaxy z before it was stolen.
This is not true at all.
Firefox OS was a good idea, shame it couldn't be revelant against Android and iOS. HTML5 webapps are so much more practical than regular apps.
But sh1tty games
What model is that small nokia phone (3:50)? I just knew nokia phones have always on displays 😂
Nokia asha 501
what is that transparent phone?
Firefox OS
The name of the phone or the the of the os
That Nokia that ran on Meego OS still looks more beautiful than most smartphones today.
More like Nokia Android smartphones are the best
Why Sailfish os ui icons are ugly? I thought Sailfish is descendant of Meego/Harmattan.
My favorite is Blackberry 10 OS... The gesturebased navigation and Hub are top notch! I kinda don't get why Blackberry switched to Android when their 10 OS had / or has, I'm stil using Z10 as my personal phone, an emulation layer that allowed to run Android applications. They even include Amazon App Store... Sure they have their suite apps on Android but they don't feel so polished and smooth running as on 10 OS.
#Meego is Unique 😘😘
powerful os is meego when Nokia ended partnership with intel and linux foundation then intel linux foundation and Samsung tried to make a os like meego which named as Tizen but they failed in smartphones but in other Samsung devices tizen is performing good
MeeGo on Nokia N9 was superb
I love these types of videos, please make videoa on like, living with Symbian and sailfish os in 2019......
Is the android based on linux too?
yes
Blackberry is a world's best phone
This Bb is an old model. Newer ones had realy different OS which was more like Meego with Hub. I really miss Blackberry 10 OS
Asha os is went on sale in India.
@Laziness Socks The Nokia mobile in the video with asha os the same mobile is on sale in India with nokia maps.
wheir is windows os
where is windows phones.?
meego / maemo?
realy nice. thanks!!
What about iOS that it a modified linux
No, it's unix-based if I'm not mistaken
What about the lg cookie
KDE make a phone OS and it's still in development
Your channel seems to be focusing on the UI instead of the overall strengths and weaknesses of each OS.
The UI does not really matter since we can always customize with launchers.
I would be more curious to know what makes them unique beyond what swiping does.
WebOS seems so smooth
Why not review symbian on nokia phone?
Lineage OS?
linage os is pure android same as mui xui, cm, oxygen but they are better than the original aosp
Mmmm.. Well.. Samsung z2 has tizen configuration
You can check it out!
And I still own one
Nokia N series should be continued.....with their own os's..
*3:00* 😂😭
They are still very good i think
symbian could return in feature phones like kaios
7:55 Windows Mobile has no official RUclips application =D
Ubuntu is my favourite
Don't leave out Nokia Nxx0 series! N900, N810, N800 are all great attempts of doing Linux on phones.