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Do you disagree? What then makes the iPhone 1 (as originally released) more of a smartphone than a feature phone?
by donio 5y ago
Do you disagree? What then makes the iPhone 1 (as originally released) more of a smartphone than a feature phone?
- klelatti 5y agoHere's the wikipedia definition of smartphone: > A smartphone is a portable device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, which facilitate wider software, internet (including web browsing[1] over mobile broadband), and multimedia functionality (including music, video, cameras, and gaming), alongside core phone functions such as voice calls and text messaging. Basically a feature phone does calls and text messaging - if it has a decent email client, web browsing and multimedia it's a smartphone. The iPhone 1 was a smartphone.
- donio 5y agoI guess my definition is wider than that. I was thinking of phones like the touchscreen Nokia Asha phones, they have web browsing, navigation, music, chat, maybe basic facebook/twitter and the usual phone stuff but no app support. I wouldn't call those smartphones either.
- klelatti 5y agoAsha had Java ME apps and was a borderline smartphone in 2011. Sure neither had App Stores but in 2007 no-one used having an App Store as the criteria for being a smartphone or not. What we expect from a smartphone moves on of course but you have to judge by the standards of the time. I fact you could argue that by modern standards there were no smartphones pre iPhone 1 - that the poor browsing experience for example would disqualify the Blackberries and Motorolas of the time.