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1) I'm thinking by this you mean where the battery is non-removeable and where there is no keyboard. This was definitely something new. 3) WAP ... heck that w
by tenebrisalietum 8y ago
1) I'm thinking by this you mean where the battery is non-removeable and where there is no keyboard. This was definitely something new.
3) WAP ... heck that was irrelevant since phones started having color screens. Browsers in the older Blackberries and Windows Mobile phones of the time were not WAP, but pre-WebKit applications that only implemented a subset of HTML.
4) Microsoft wanted to treat phones like it treated PCs - it would collect on software licenses. Hence it didn't see the device as something it controlled beyond selling an OS license for it. This made sense before Internet was cheap and fast on mobile devices.
iPhone was definitely a start of a major new era. I think the most significant thing is that iPhone was able to more or less end up as the boss of its own platform in the manufactuer-carrier relationship. Before iPhone, the OS was seen as something that would have to be approved by the carrier and device manufacturer.