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Speaking as someone who owned both back in 2007, the original iPhone was still a quantum leap forward from the Nokia N95. You could bullet-point the capabiliti
by sjwright 14y ago
Speaking as someone who owned both back in 2007, the original iPhone was still a quantum leap forward from the Nokia N95.
You could bullet-point the capabilities of each device and end up with surprisingly similar lists, but the functional superiority of the iPhone was still remarkably unambiguous. It was like holding an artifact from the near future.
- masklinn 14y ago> Speaking as someone who owned both back in 2007, the original iPhone was still a quantum leap forward from the Nokia N95. Absolutely, I wasn't trying to say the smartphones of the time were fantastic and there's clearly a pre-iphone and a post-iphone, my post was simply that the consumer world was not a smartphone-less vacuum before the iphone, the US were.
- sjwright 14y agoThe Nokia N95, a series-60 device with a numeric keypad, can't possibly be seriously taken as a smartphone. Such a claim wouldn't have even passed the sniff test back when it was released -- it was just a riotously expensive feature-laden feature-phone. Compared to the Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices of the time, it was pretty weak.