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[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what? i absolutely wanted a cell phone with a decent web browser on it in 2007, are you high?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My phone did have a browser, but you had to type in using the numbers. What I really wanted was a phone with a bigger physical keyboard

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it wasn't just the keyboard for me. phone browsers pre iphone were just absolute garbage with joke rendering engines. you were lucky to get a functional mobile site, let alone trying to render the desktop version. iphone was using the same rendering engine as desktop safari, which wasn't perfect but miles better than whatever the hell blackberry or sidekick were using.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I still logged in to Facebook on the number pad back in the day. If you told me I had to use a touchscreen I'd say I'd rather get a bigger physical keyboard because I need to feel what I'm typing and to see the whole site I'm typing in

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their point was that nobody knew they wanted an iPhone back then.

  • Why would I want a gimped web browser on LTE data rate when I have a laptop with Wi-fi?
  • Why pay all that money for what is just a phone?
  • Does this make better calls than a beater 3310? No? So what’s the point?

Back then the most feature packed phones were either some psuedo-gaming device, or a Sony Ericsson you acquired from Japan with no warranty and likely region locking.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I can’t just pull out my laptop at my shitty gas station job I had as a teen in 2007… I wanted an upgrade from my fucking slide phone’s shit browser. There was a huge market for it already. People KNEW they wanted it and it delivered.