I bought an HP Touchpad in the $99 fire sale and I still have it. The UX was so far ahead of its time that I was blown away by it. It’s still chugging along without hiccups. I miss the days of such lovely and unique devices.

I loved my Handspring Visor and PalmOS Treo phones - they had every smartphone feature, back in 2004.

A decade later, LG's version of webOS continues to ship on TVs, based on OpenEmbedded/Yocto, https://www.webosose.org

They rather ridiculously discuss an OS as if all that mattered was the UI.

It matters a lot, it's one of the reasons we're still waiting for the year of Linux on the desktop?

And on small screen devices with the sole input a fat finger it matters even more if you ask me.

UI is a layer on top of the OS.

It is not the OS.

Only on the UNIX world.

On the desktop world, the UI is a component of the OS, and is responsible of the whole OS experience.

Hence why the successful OSes that happen to have UNIX internals, those internals are not exposed to the users, and are not optional for most development scenarios.

Hence why GNU/Linux on the desktop failed, while Linux kernel on the mobile and TVs with prescribed user and developer experience has succeed.

It's too bad that nobody's figured out notifications as great as the Pre had

The entire experience (other than the peed issues you sometimes got) was so much better, but it did also much less(which is not a negative thing)

I still miss my HP Pre3, it was a great phone for that time...

Likewise for the Centro.

My Prē 2 and Veer are still going strong, and I still really love the Veer's size.

The best thing about Palm Prē [for non owners] was their Tamara Hope spokeslady/ad campaign by Modernista!

https://youtu.be/q3OfYkJbyLw

You can sort of see some of the motifs in the original material design.

(2014)

Added. Thanks!