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MeeGo beyond the mobile deviceMeeGo beyond the mobile devicePosted Nov 18, 2010 2:30 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)Parent article: MeeGo beyond the mobile device
> Open source software on smartphones took decades to arrive;
Hmm, I didn't know that smartphones were even around for a decade, let alone decades?
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MeeGo beyond the mobile device Posted Nov 18, 2010 21:10 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link] It depends on your definition of smartphone. I tend to think that smartphones must support installation of new applications, in which case I think the earliest is the Nokia 9210 from 2001. However Wikipedia's entry on smartphones has a broader definition and examples from the 90s.
MeeGo beyond the mobile device Posted Nov 19, 2010 2:35 UTC (Fri) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]
That WP article reads like an article on the PC written in 1981, perhaps citing mainframes and the apple ][ as part of the long PC history. I think that it is a stretch to call anything a smart phone unless it could browse the web. Anything else is a PDA/phone combo or feature phone. It might be time to rewrite that article. :)
MeeGo beyond the mobile device Posted Nov 23, 2010 11:19 UTC (Tue) by nicolas@jungers (✭ supporter ✭, #7579) [Link]
My Handspring with the gsm module was able to browse the net in 2001. I had also a ssh client and various net utilities. It was of course a dial-up connection, but a connection nevertheless.
MeeGo beyond the mobile device Posted Nov 24, 2010 0:53 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]
Do you mean access the net or browse the web? I had a handspring around that time. I do not recall a webrowser app being available. IP connectivity does not imply browsing.
Even if you did, is would still make the original decades (plural) statement hard to stomach.
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