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I anticipated it the moment I saw a Sony Ericsson P800i, a little over a decade ago. That one was a smartphone running Windows Mobile (not yet called smartphone
by Natanael_L 11y ago
I anticipated it the moment I saw a Sony Ericsson P800i, a little over a decade ago. That one was a smartphone running Windows Mobile (not yet called smartphones back then).
I saw a lot if this coming; GPS with location sharing, high speed mobile Internet, chat, video, handheld computers with full touchscreens, apps with custom advanced interfaces adapted for their own set of features. But back then I was teenager without the focus and motivation to learn programming, etc, so unfortunately I'm not much better off today for having spotted that trend early... If I had a time machine, I would have taken that time learning programming when I first thought about if I should or not (I guess I failed to anticipate the commercialization of it all!). On the other hand I've always been an early adopter with broad knowledge about everything technical, which is better than nothing.
- digi_owl 11y agoActually the P800 ran Symbian, using a UI called UIQ. And they were very much called smartphones back then. Hell, the media pundits had to contort the definition of the term massively so that the iPhone could fit for the first year or so.