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The Treo was hardly the original smartphone. Nokia had the Communicator before that, and Alcatel had the One Touch Com in 1996: http://data.motor-talk.de/data/g
by gnaffle 15y ago
The Treo was hardly the original smartphone. Nokia had the Communicator before that, and Alcatel had the One Touch Com in 1996: http://data.motor-talk.de/data/galleries/0/3/7206/16273817/p3140094-large-56259.JPG http://data.motor-talk.de/data/galleries/0/3/7206/16273817/p...
Apples spin wasn't ditching the keyboard as so many people think, it was designing the user interface around finger-based touch, making the interface easy enough for normal people to use, and finally to ship a decent performing browser at a time when most other phones were a nightmare to use when browsing the web (try a N95, also released in 2007, to see what I mean)
- j45 15y agoYou're right. I forgot about the communicator because I didn't consider it a smart-enough phone to use. I kept using my Palm Pilot Pro becuse it gave me the productivity I needed. The communicator definitely had a keyboard and apps though, I just didn't find them usable at the time. By far it is still one of the most bad ass looking phones, with that folding out. On a side note, the Handspring Visor Phone addon is also worthy of a shoutout, since it was out before the Treo.. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Handspring_Releases_Visor_Phone_Module/ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Handspring_Releases_V...