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0 pointskybernetikos8y ago0 comments

There are loads of phones from before the iPhone that could play music and run j2me apps that nobody considers 'smartphones'. I wrote apps that ran on the Sony Ericcson T610 but that still gets called a 'cameraphone'.

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digi_owl8y ago

I know and it grinds my gears all the time. Hell, when the iphone first shipped it was more featurephone than smartphone. But the MSM decided that because there is a touchscreen, there is a smartphone...

Yetanfou8y ago

While the T610 - one of the first Sony-Ericsson devices - is not a smartphone there were many true smartphones before Apple finally joined the fray in 2007. Devices running Symbian S60 were smartphones and marketed as such in 2000 (Ericsson R380), those running Windows CE/Windows Mobile were smartphones, the Nokia Communicator (1996) was a smartphone, there were several smartphones running PalmOS (starting in 2002 with the Palm Treo), Blackberry sold smartphones, etc.

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