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Well, yeah. Phones at that time were mostly just laid out to render WAP pages only, if anything at all. And virtually nobody used that feature. Phones actually

Well, yeah. Phones at that time were mostly just laid out to render WAP pages only, if anything at all. And virtually nobody used that feature. Phones actually rending HTML/CSS/JS in a useful way came years later, roughly 2007+.

adamnemecek 9y ago
They were around since maybe 2004-2005. I vaguely remember this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Browser_for_Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Browser_for_Symbian
slantyyz 9y ago
>> Phones at that time were mostly just laid out to render WAP pages only Well, phones in general maybe. Smart phones and PDAs like the iPaq running Windows CE (or whatever it was called - it had so many name changes I lost track) had a half decent version of IE on them. Back around 2004-2005, you were universally mocked for putting a giant screen against your face when making a phone call. Kinda funny considering how big screen phones are so popular today. Some of those Windows devices even had decent res. I had a Toshiba e800 (pda, not phone) in 2004 and it had a VGA screen, which was quite sharp (esp considering that even the original iPhone in 2007 had only 320x480).
wmil 9y ago
Oh come on. Internet on phones wasn't invented with the iPhone. In 2005 Palm and Blackberry both had phones with slow, limited but functional browsers. And they had had them since 2003 or so.
anthonybsd 9y ago
Umm, you are completely wrong. I was using Handspring (and Later Palm) Treo starting from 2002 or so, and it did a pretty decent job of rendering major websites. Yeah, Blazer (Handspring browser) wasn't always perfect or fast, but it definitely didn't not "render WAP pages only". It was full web. By the time I upgraded to Treo 650 around 2004 or so, browsing web on mobile was in full swing. A few times when I was in a pinch in the airport I'd pull up Orbitz and look up/book flights on a regular website interface. Also, being on Sprint which just unrolled CDMA2000 and later EV-DO helped tremendously with this experience.
TomMarius 9y ago
No, not really. I used to own HTC TyTN2 that ran Windows and used Opera browser on it.

adamnemecek 9y ago

They were around since maybe 2004-2005. I vaguely remember this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Browser_for_Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Browser_for_Symbian

slantyyz 9y ago

>> Phones at that time were mostly just laid out to render WAP pages only Well, phones in general maybe. Smart phones and PDAs like the iPaq running Windows CE (or whatever it was called - it had so many name changes I lost track) had a half decent version of IE on them. Back around 2004-2005, you were universally mocked for putting a giant screen against your face when making a phone call. Kinda funny considering how big screen phones are so popular today. Some of those Windows devices even had decent res. I had a Toshiba e800 (pda, not phone) in 2004 and it had a VGA screen, which was quite sharp (esp considering that even the original iPhone in 2007 had only 320x480).

wmil 9y ago

Oh come on. Internet on phones wasn't invented with the iPhone. In 2005 Palm and Blackberry both had phones with slow, limited but functional browsers. And they had had them since 2003 or so.

anthonybsd 9y ago

Umm, you are completely wrong. I was using Handspring (and Later Palm) Treo starting from 2002 or so, and it did a pretty decent job of rendering major websites. Yeah, Blazer (Handspring browser) wasn't always perfect or fast, but it definitely didn't not "render WAP pages only". It was full web. By the time I upgraded to Treo 650 around 2004 or so, browsing web on mobile was in full swing. A few times when I was in a pinch in the airport I'd pull up Orbitz and look up/book flights on a regular website interface. Also, being on Sprint which just unrolled CDMA2000 and later EV-DO helped tremendously with this experience.

TomMarius 9y ago

No, not really. I used to own HTC TyTN2 that ran Windows and used Opera browser on it.