"The year is 2005. There are no smartphones"
In Europe, we had Nokia Communicator smartphones since 1996. They had web browsers, and you could install apps. They never took the market by storm like the iPhone, but they were smartphones allright.
In Europe, we had Nokia Communicator smartphones since 1996. They had web browsers, and you could install apps. They never took the market by storm like the iPhone, but they were smartphones allright.
I really hate this `Apple invented smartphone' nonsense; it reeks of `The Party had invented helicopter, aeroplanes -- and gradually eveything else' straight from Orwell's 1984. Are we /really/ that gullible?
[1] building on P900 (2003) and P800 (2002), which were pretty smart on their own.
Thankfully, when news started coming in that NTT DoCoMo was making tons of cash off of data streaming and text messaging, then the carriers were all in.