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It reminds me of 3G - at least in the UK, the rollout/marketing of it seemed synonymous with video calling.

Same marketing style played out in Sweden. Endless advertisements showing manically laughing people overcome by joy from doing video calls on flip-phones without cameras.

This sounds a bit too absurd, do you have a link to an example video?

Rolling backwards slightly, here's a good one for "Internet on your phone" I remember from about the year 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvNW3do-9g

I did my dissertation project in WAP. This ad grossly oversold the concept of "Internet on your phone" (which properly kicked off in a way that the 'regular person' would embrace the UK around 2007, I think).

The 'future' is always mis-sold.

A couple of videos I uploaded years ago;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKwHVQ3GA_A

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCj9RDl3PgA

No, but you might find something on YouTube.

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