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You over-complicate. A Palm practically is just an ancient iPhone with black&white screen and email-only connectivity over an IR or a COM port. AFAIK there eve
by qwerty456127 4y ago
You over-complicate. A Palm practically is just an ancient iPhone with black&white screen and email-only connectivity over an IR or a COM port.
AFAIK there even were late models which could make calls and browse the web.
Smartphones were called "communicators", modem-less models (like what today iPod is to iPhone) were called PDAs.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoI was calling "smartphones" as "smartphones" for sure during the 2000s. In fact, I just looked up the Treo 180 PR (2001ish) and it was calling it a "smartphone". For me "communicator" always meant something looking more like a, well, Nokia Communicator (or with the same form-factor).
- bitwize 4y ago"Smartphone" was a Microsoft coinage from the early 2000s used to refer to PDAs with phone capabilities running Windows CE. They didn't trademark the term, so once the iPhone and Androids came out it was applied to them as well. There are quite a few industry terms like this. "PDA" was coined by Apple to describe the Newton in generic terms. The term "game console" was promoted by Nintendo in the early 90s to prevent clueless parents from calling rival systems "Nintendos"; before that we called them systems or just referred to them by brand name.
- yellowapple 4y ago> The term "game console" was promoted by Nintendo in the early 90s to prevent clueless parents from calling rival systems "Nintendos" Too bad that didn't quite work.
- Daub 4y agoThe difference between an iPhone and everything that preceded it was not the hardware, but the deals that Jobs struck with the carriers, specifically AT&T, to upgrade their network.