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Windows Phone, particularly Windows Phone 8.1. It had its flaws, the biggest being the lack of third-party support of course but the UX was the best I've ever experienced on a mobile device.
The UI was very different from Android/iOS but felt more consistent and intuitive. The Live Tiles especially were just such a good feature to get as much information as possible on one screen. And it all looked so incredibly good for the time with its silky smooth animations.
It's a shame Microsoft ruined it all with Windows Phone 10...
Also the keyboard! I have never used one I liked more until thumbkey came along :) The windows keyboard was so good for swipe typing, it makes me wonder how they now own swift key and it isn't as good!
When I had to go to Android (phone battery on the Lumia 950xl started swelling), I used things to replicate Windows Phone as it was so fun to use. :)
There's still a dedicated community of windows phone enthusiasts. It definitely had something. Unfortunately I never got to try one
I legitimately miss my lumia 1020, I really liked the way that applications "flowed" as well, entire ui was really intuitive, maybe partly because I had a zune with the touch pad for years before getting a wp7, zune was another solid but memed on device.
Oh I wish I had a Zune HD, it's exactly my kinda thing; quirky, niche and pretty much failed. I loved the interface of that old Zune media player that was available for Windows 7, used that for quite a while before switching to Foobar2k.
Nokia Mix Radio was amazing as well, used that all the time on my Lumia 930.
The collage with artist information was really cool with the Zune media player, I'm Canadian so we didn't get the Zune pass for a while, that during the iPod era was ahead of its time as a streaming service.
The hard disk in my Zune died years ago and its totally been lost in moves unfortunately, would love to have flash modded it like people do with their old iPods, having a dedicated media device would be great. I've seen refurbed zune HDs on eBay, temptation is there, just need to find out if there's any way to sync with the Zune media player, had a Foobar2k plugin years ago that did iPod syncing, something like that.
The Zunes on eBay over here are either non-existent or super expensive unfortunately