> It isn't of course, Nokia smartphones from that period had colour screens and ran Symbian. They had 3G, Video calling, MP3/Video playback, fairly okay web bro

> It isn't of course, Nokia smartphones from that period had colour screens and ran Symbian. They had 3G, Video calling, MP3/Video playback, fairly okay web browsers (I used to use Opera), and okay-ish photo/video capabilities. You could even edit documents on them if you hated yourself that much. Those Symbian S60 Nokia phones you listed could install and run apps written in "C++". Emphasis on those quotes! But regardless, your very own native code, doing your bidding. Been there, done that. It worked, but writing those apps was very tedious and hard. Everything was async to save power. No standard libraries, etc. I'm very happy there's no need for "leave stack" and "cleanup stack" etc. in the modern world. But damn, that architecture was really helping the battery to last for a long time. Your code simply would not be running until some async thing did a callback.