Morty2264
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what was your first smartphone?
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1998, Handspring Visor with a Sprint module in the Springboard slot. Although mine wasn't black, it was clear.
was a Samsung Instinct with Sprint.
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Do you understand what the meaning of a smartphone is bud?
The Nokia N70 was indeed a smartphone, and a powerful one in its time, great device.
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My first smartphone was the Symbian S60 based Nokia N80 circa 2006, it ran Symbian S60v3 OS9.1.
I remember installing and using apps like:
QuickOffice
Opera 8.65
Symella
Handy Taskman
X-Plore
OggPlay
DivX Player
CorePlayer
And using Themes by Babi Nokia
I remember installing and using apps like:
QuickOffice
Opera 8.65
Symella
Handy Taskman
X-Plore
OggPlay
DivX Player
CorePlayer
And using Themes by Babi Nokia
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The N80 isn't technically a smartphone though, those were the Windows Mobile and, possibly, the Palm Treo devices of the time. I would say the N80 sat somewhere between a full smartphone and a dumb phone as it had certain smartphone features but not all of them, making it a feature phone and even Nokia referred to S60 as a feature phone OS.
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Lol, no, Nokia did not ever refer to Symbian as a feature phone OS. Many apps that were on WM made it to Symbian. Symbian was a Smartphone OS built from the ground up for Phones.
Nokia often referred to the Nokia Nseries as a Computer In Your Pocket.
Buddy, please do yourself a favour and read up Symbian and Psion OS, you will learn a lot about what Symbian was
Nokia feature phones used a Java platform known as Nokia S40
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Lol, no, Nokia did not ever refer to Symbian as a feature phone OS. Many apps that were on WM made it to Symbian. Symbian was a Smartphone OS built from the ground up for Phones.
Nokia often referred to the Nokia Nseries as a Computer In Your Pocket.
Buddy, please do yourself a favour and read up Symbian and Psion OS, you will learn a lot about what Symbian was
Nokia feature phones used a Java platform known as Nokia S40
I've probably used far more platforms than you have, including Psion devices so no education needed on my part anyway.
The point is that the N series may have been "a computer in your pocket" but S60 was outdated and outpaced very quickly by Windows Mobile and Palm OS.
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And yet here we are.
As for who has used more devices than the other, that is neither here nor there bud, I know people who have used everything from the first phone, Symbian, WM, iPhone , Android etc... and have never paid much attention to what OS they are on.
You made read up here:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/What_is_Symbian_What_is_S60.php
My first smartphone was LG Motion on Metro PCS one of the first phones on the planet to have continuous VOLTE .
It was on Metro PCS in 2012 and I think Metro was first with full VOLTE also.
VOLTE is not just for voice quality it is for simultaneous Voice and Data on LTE so you can look up the part # online while you talk etc etc.
ALSO phone stays on 4GLTE always AND you don't get bumped off Internet typing a long email when calls come thru.
Many Networks struggle with VOLTE still - probably one of the reasons Sprint is Merging with TMobile.
Sprint phones feature VOLTE ( even S9 ) with a switchable VOLTE on the phone - and it sometimes affects call quality (¿?) when Sprint Users turn on VOLTE.
VOLTE on best networks is baked into the Phone and Phone Software and Towers ...not something switchable...in a few more years you will see this everywhere most likely.
LG Motion was a great little phone with and had loud speaker and good reception. Was only $149. I think.
Most unlocked phones do not get full VOLTE because it is still Carrier Specific.
It was on Metro PCS in 2012 and I think Metro was first with full VOLTE also.
VOLTE is not just for voice quality it is for simultaneous Voice and Data on LTE so you can look up the part # online while you talk etc etc.
ALSO phone stays on 4GLTE always AND you don't get bumped off Internet typing a long email when calls come thru.
Many Networks struggle with VOLTE still - probably one of the reasons Sprint is Merging with TMobile.
Sprint phones feature VOLTE ( even S9 ) with a switchable VOLTE on the phone - and it sometimes affects call quality (¿?) when Sprint Users turn on VOLTE.
VOLTE on best networks is baked into the Phone and Phone Software and Towers ...not something switchable...in a few more years you will see this everywhere most likely.
LG Motion was a great little phone with and had loud speaker and good reception. Was only $149. I think.
Most unlocked phones do not get full VOLTE because it is still Carrier Specific.
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