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I've got fond memories of trying to order from the Farnel website with a Nokia 6800 back in 2006ish... I think via wifi. The entire experience was awful and inf

I've got fond memories of trying to order from the Farnel website with a Nokia 6800 back in 2006ish... I think via wifi. The entire experience was awful and infuriating on a number of levels, but it did actually get on with it. Might have been running Opera as a java app. Thanks for the post - I've been trying to remember what that was and failing to google for a couple of weeks now. Some of the ire and sarcasm seems undeserved and seems to miss the point of some of the handsets - I wonder if the author is old enough to remember them first hand in the wild (eg for the k800 no one downloaded MP3s through their phone, but having a 2gb SD card and a USB connection was extremely handy). Edit: to clarify what I meant; I didn't meant to disparage anyone's age. Merely that I remember some of this tech making sense in the context of the time, though looking back from today, I can see why it wouldn't.

johnwalkr 4y ago
I have fond memories of the WAP internet. In 2001 in Canada it was really expensive to get any kind of data plan, and you might only get 5MB per month. I had a plan with no data at all, but you could use the WAP browser to access a handful of things for free, on the provider's website. It was things like weather, very limited news and movie times. One day I was messing around in there, and a 404 page had a link to google. I bookmarked the link and from that day had unlimited WAP internet access (and google had a built-in gateway to WAPify any web page). My next phone was not a flip phone, had a real (bad browser), and had a prominent web browser button that worked from any other screen. However you could only exit the browser by navigating menus. It also had a tendency to reset in your pocket, which of course turned off the keylock. So at least once a day you'd end up pocket-googling and using up your precious megabytes.

johnwalkr 4y ago

I have fond memories of the WAP internet. In 2001 in Canada it was really expensive to get any kind of data plan, and you might only get 5MB per month. I had a plan with no data at all, but you could use the WAP browser to access a handful of things for free, on the provider's website. It was things like weather, very limited news and movie times. One day I was messing around in there, and a 404 page had a link to google. I bookmarked the link and from that day had unlimited WAP internet access (and google had a built-in gateway to WAPify any web page). My next phone was not a flip phone, had a real (bad browser), and had a prominent web browser button that worked from any other screen. However you could only exit the browser by navigating menus. It also had a tendency to reset in your pocket, which of course turned off the keylock. So at least once a day you'd end up pocket-googling and using up your precious megabytes.