I can still remember a time when an HTC PDA was literally the hottest tech on the market. How fascinating it is to see how much has changed in less than a decade.
Yep, sometimes it feels like a lost decade in terms of mobile technology.
I seem to have misplaced the url, but there used to be a video on Youtube from a mobile tech trade show where Nokia was showing off using one of their phones as a mobile office.
We are talking Symbian, bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and video out to a TV. And this was when Android barely had bluetooth keyboard support (and you needed to use special OSKs to get anything but an American layout), and they had been doing it for years already.
Compared to smartphone users, they were very much early adopters. No wireless sync, graffiti input, etc. They were not really mainstream devices even if they were pretty successful by the standards of the time.
It really is. Things get comfortable and people assume that's always how it was.
Like cell phones. Wow, over a decade of them and if you had one 15 years ago you were considered a early adapter, and 20 years ago you were way ahead the curve. If you had one in the 90's, wow.
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