On 8/28/2012 10:33 AM, Bob W wrote:
this is simply not true. I had a couple of smartphones for years before the
iPhone. They ran Windows Mobile and synced perfectly with Outlook on my
desktop, and had pretty much all the functionality I have now on my Android
phone. In fact, they synched far better than the Android. The advantages of
the newer stuff are better wifi (wireless sync is good) and better internet.
But the older phones had good operating systems for their day and for the
technology available back then, like needing a stylus for screen touching.
B
Indeed. I used to have a QTek 8100 (if I am not mistaken) which by the
way I bought back in Norway during my visit to the Great Jostein :-). It
did not have touch interface but beside that it was just perfect. It
just worked. It could last 2-3 days on one charge (granted it did not
have GPS or WiFi, but back the phones were mostly phones) and it was
nice and compact.
I still regret the day I sold it to a friend who convinced me to do so :-(.
Then I had another cell phone by O2 which was brought to me from
Singapore. Beside abysmal battery life (seemed like a known h/w at the
time) it was just as good.
As for the rest. I think that it all started with Apple's Newton (in
terms of PDA, handwriting recognition and other things novel) and then
was continued by Palm Pilot, which by the way (as the story has it) was
designed by one of the founders having a wooden mockup that they carried
along the day in order to see what could be pocketable and how
comfortable it was.
I also had Handsrping Visor device which was cool due to its modules and
I did have a cell phone module for it. Beside being bulky it actually
was very nice.
So that with all due respect Apple iPhone wasn't pioneering. It was a
well designed device that really based itself on a solid legacy of other
devices of related or similar nature naturally having added its own
share of goodness. That does not say that Apple suck or whatever, just
putting things in a bit of perspective over time here.
But like I said, Bob is quite right.
Boris
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