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> Smartphones are this century's invention. If you notice, I had deliberately used the word "cellphone" instead of "smartphone". Cellphones (1980s) were 20th
by jasode 11y ago
> Smartphones are this century's invention.
If you notice, I had deliberately used the word "cellphone" instead of "smartphone". Cellphones (1980s) were 20th century technology. Many poor villagers don't have smartphones but they do have cellphones.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoRight. My misread, I apologize. The reason I read 'smartphone' instead of 'cellphone' is that they're related to an observation I find important - that smartphones are actually essential tools for the poor. Internet access gives significant quality of life improvements.
- cm2187 11y agoCellphones only took off in the late 90s. They are not really 80s technology, at least for poor peasans.
- Retric 11y agoYou could use the internet on a web on a phone in late 90's. The post 2000 smartphone was more an evolution than a specific capability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_browser EX: BlackBerry 850 (1999) was very email centric.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYou could, but the Internet in mid-to-late 90's was nothing like it looks today. I still remember WAP browsers and this was not something useful for general population in a way smartphones and the Internet of today are. Western corporate businessmen did AFAIK had some use for it though.
- blaincate 11y agoI was in india till 2001 and very few people in urban areas has cellular phone. Even in US during studies, very few students had cell phones (2001-2002). The advent of cellphone is definitely from 2000 (not before). atleast my experience. a found a link to support my observation: http://www.cartesian.com/the-rise-of-mobile-phones-20-years-of-global-adoption/ http://www.cartesian.com/the-rise-of-mobile-phones-20-years-...