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Yes the penetration of smartphones is increasing, but I personally know a lot of people who don't want smartphone. For example, 2 out of 3 of my friends who own
by greyman 16y ago
Yes the penetration of smartphones is increasing, but I personally know a lot of people who don't want smartphone. For example, 2 out of 3 of my friends who owns iPhone said to me that "...but my previous nokia [dumbphone] was better", and are not planing to buy another smartphone. So it's still an open question what the ratio between smartphone and dumbphone will be in the future. But Nokia's dumbphones are certainly not going away anytime soon.
- Joakal 16y agoWait until the internet capabilities on smartphones get realised. On a bus for 30 minutes? Use the phone to browse HN. etc
- rospaya 16y agoAlmost any phone can browse the web today.
- tdoggette 16y agoYeah, but not in a way that approaches the usefulness of a desktop browser.
- bergie 16y agoYep, Nokia N900 is the only phone accomplishing that :-) For example, Android and iOS browsers skipped the rather useful contentEditable functionality. On my N900 I have it.
- Tichy 16y agowhat does it do? Edit: OK, not that I know what it does, what do you use it for on your N900?
- ugh 16y agohttp://html5demos.com/contenteditable http://html5demos.com/contenteditable Suffice it to say, this is not the reason why smartphones are so much better at browsing the web than feature phones.
- huertanix 16y agoThe N900 also has the only implementation of Firefox Mobile. Adblock Plus is in my pocket.
- jokermatt999 16y agoActually, it's on Android as well. I haven't tried it for a few versions (it...needed some work then), but it is available.
- rospaya 16y agoInstall Opera Mini.
- rimantas 16y agoThere are many things you can do on the phone. Not that many you want to do, given the experience.
- ugh 16y agoIf browsing the web on the phone is as easy as on iOS or Android it’s not a dumb phone, it’s a smart phone.
- huertanix 16y agoIts a better experience on some phones than others; "Surfing the web" in Blackberry's browser is closer to "drowning the web" and rendering nothing correctly.
- daliusd 16y agoYou can do that with old phones that have WAP browsers. OK. Someone needs to write WAP proxy for HN :)
- ladon86 16y agoThat's what I do every time I'm on a bus :)
- huertanix 16y agoI do the same on the Phoenix light rail; This site's layout performs really well on mobile devices; Loading a beast like Digg on my N900 would make me twitch for kill -9.