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All you see is more pixels? What about GPS? Music? Movies? Facetime in realtime to anyone in the world? What about doing all of the above at the same time? "I

All you see is more pixels? What about GPS? Music? Movies? Facetime in realtime to anyone in the world? What about doing all of the above at the same time? "I only see" is because you are limiting what you see in a way that goes against what the vast majority of people see. That's like saying the new MacBook is no different than a 286 because you had Excel Worksheets on both. Or saying there is no difference between a Model-T and a 2018 Honda Civic - they both use gas, have 4 wheels and a windshield.

ptx 9y ago
> What about GPS? Music? Movies? Lots of high-end feature-phones had all these features in 2007–2008. (GPS was not common before then, but some had it earlier.) > Facetime in realtime to anyone in the world? Video calling was a heavily promoted feature of the first 3G phones, a long time ago. > What about doing all of the above at the same time? Good feature-phones had multitasking in 2006. I would often listen to music while running multiple third-party apps (!) at the same time. Of course, these phones cost a tiny fraction of the price of the first iPhone, so hardware limitations like having only a few megabytes of RAM were a bit constraining. The functionality was basically there though.
- wernercd 9y ago
  I owned a Moto Razer (original). I've owned a Treo. I've owned multiple iPhones and multiple Samsung Notes. Even comparing the original iPhone vs the current batches of iPhone - we are talking GENERATIONS of improvements. Massively better camera's, GPU, CPU, Batter, Screens - both pixel counts and size, network infrastructure, software infrastructure (MySpace vs Facebook). Orders of magnitude improvements across ALL of those metrics. Simply talking multi-tasking on the original Android and iPhones vs today? Comparing those vs the Palm and Blackberries they replaced? I've lived through 20 years of Cell Phone... 10 years ago may not have been the "Dark Ages"... but it was the time immediately afterwords (Palm/BB/WinPhone were definitely the Dark Ages). We are comparing Horses & Buggies, Model Ts and 2018 Honda Civics... the Model T was better than horses and buggies... but not that much better.

ptx 9y ago

> What about GPS? Music? Movies? Lots of high-end feature-phones had all these features in 2007–2008. (GPS was not common before then, but some had it earlier.) > Facetime in realtime to anyone in the world? Video calling was a heavily promoted feature of the first 3G phones, a long time ago. > What about doing all of the above at the same time? Good feature-phones had multitasking in 2006. I would often listen to music while running multiple third-party apps (!) at the same time. Of course, these phones cost a tiny fraction of the price of the first iPhone, so hardware limitations like having only a few megabytes of RAM were a bit constraining. The functionality was basically there though.

wernercd 9y ago
I owned a Moto Razer (original). I've owned a Treo. I've owned multiple iPhones and multiple Samsung Notes. Even comparing the original iPhone vs the current batches of iPhone - we are talking GENERATIONS of improvements. Massively better camera's, GPU, CPU, Batter, Screens - both pixel counts and size, network infrastructure, software infrastructure (MySpace vs Facebook). Orders of magnitude improvements across ALL of those metrics. Simply talking multi-tasking on the original Android and iPhones vs today? Comparing those vs the Palm and Blackberries they replaced? I've lived through 20 years of Cell Phone... 10 years ago may not have been the "Dark Ages"... but it was the time immediately afterwords (Palm/BB/WinPhone were definitely the Dark Ages). We are comparing Horses & Buggies, Model Ts and 2018 Honda Civics... the Model T was better than horses and buggies... but not that much better.