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Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
> On 3/5/2025 12:21 PM, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
> > 
> > I "snipped out" the rest of your description of rapid change (whatever 
> > that is) in the hope that somebody might clarify the claim that "Apple 
> > invented computer cellphones in 2008"
> 
>    Is that wrong? I just looked it up. It was actually 2007.
> Was there another computer cellphone before that? I'm
> not aware of any. There were cellphones that could make
> phone calls. But there were not apps, browsers, and so on,
> as far as I know. I welcome correction if I'm mistaken.
> 
>    In other words, people could make phone calls on wireless
> phones back in the 80s. But the cellphone lifestyle of banking,
> shopping, getting directions, texting, etc is fairly recent.
> (Remember that there's also the lag between when iPhone
> came out and when computer cellphones became ubiquitous.)

  As Andy mentioned, there were mobile phones in the 90s, which had a
browser and could e-mail. They also had some built-in apps, like
calendars, note taking, etc., etc.. Some of them also had add-on apps.

  I used such mobile phones in the latter 90s and also used them as a
mobile modem. In the early 2000s, I used a Nokia 6310i [1] as a digital
modem ('thethering').

  That's why, as Andy also noted, saying "computer cellphones" when you
mean smartphones, is rather odd and confusing/ambiguous.

[1] 'Nokia 6310i' <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6310i>