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The Jolla UI looks like they borrowed liberally from Blackberry 10 OS. This is a good thing mind you, as I prefer subtle swiping gestures over tapping, and I like being able to 'peek' into my email without opening applications up.

Using the Blackberry 10 OS seems more like a true smartphone experience IMHO. Maybe Jolla felt the same way.

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A lot of the gesture stuff predates BB10 and was already in Nokia's N9 MeeGo phone. A little bit about the background:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/jolla-sailfish/

The N9 and WebOS were the first that I remember with the swipe gesture based interface, but BB10 is a much better OS than people give it credit for.

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