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> 3) non-WAP browser: all phones prior to the iPhone had a wap browser. That's incorrect. Opera Mobile launched in 2000 and was a full HTML renderer. I had i

> 3) non-WAP browser: all phones prior to the iPhone had a wap browser. That's incorrect. Opera Mobile launched in 2000 and was a full HTML renderer. I had it on a succession of Nokia E-series smartphones in that era. Yes, you could run apps before appstores existed... Then in 2005 Opera Mini was released which used server-side rendering for feature-phones that couldn't run Mobile.

dfox 8y ago
Integrated browser on probably every Nokia phone of 2000's (ie. "Services") was perfectly capable of displaying HTML 4/XHTML, with one important caveat that it really truly demanded valid markup on input.
mikestew 8y ago
Internet Explorer on WinMobile was not WAP, either. It did not render anywhere as close to desktop as the iPhone did, but it at least tried.
josh2600 8y ago
Do you really think opera mobile was comparable to mobile safari? Yes, I remember getjar.com but that's not comparable to the app store. Pretending they're analogous is facetious at best.