Comment by Apocryphon

I ported it to a couple of Android devices and used it as a daily driver for a year or so.

It is technically a successor, but it just wasn't there. App story was worse than N9 (without considering alien dalvik/anbox/waydroid).

Some of the technical decisions they've made meant more headaches for developers (Old gcc version. Old Qt version. Repacking Fedora arm packages just to run on sfos wasn't fun). The browser was based on a very old and buggy Firefox version. At the end of the day, it wasn't even fully open source.. so you always had to play catch up with their updates just to keep your mods working.

Despite all that, the community was vibrant and very talented. Oddly enough, it was also smoother to use and feels more well designed than Android on the same device. Even little things like double tap to wake, being easier for one hand usage

> Has any Nokia B9 user also tried Sailfish OS? Is it a proper successor to the Harmattan Meego distro the N9 had?

Yes I have it installed on a Sony Xperia. It's not my main phone (I have a work phone that I mainly use), but I would say it works very similar to the N9 so yes a proper successor. The major downside is a relatively small selection of native apps and that the platform did not progress as much as it could have. I would recommend that anyone who has a phone that can run it should try it out.

I had the Jolla phone back in the day. It was kind of similar to N9, but nowhere the almost magical experience N9 PR1.3 was. The lack of apps was starting to show, the on screen keyboard wasn't that good, the browser was just bad (to be honest, N9 wasn't keeping up with the standards either) and the hardware didn't do anything to improve the experience.