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@bigblen O.K., I'll find a way to weave a calendar into my UI design.
And I was thinking that you'd load files onto it either via an SD card, or by treating the phone as a USB memory stick.
I guess the hardware would need to be capable of internet under modern obligations, even if I never expose it in the UI...
@bigblen O.K., I'll find a way to weave a calendar into my UI design.
And I was thinking that you'd load files onto it either via an SD card, or by treating the phone as a USB memory stick.
I guess the hardware would need to be capable of internet under modern obligations, even if I never expose it in the UI...
@badrihippo @bigblen Yes, potentially... I don't see why not...
@badrihippo @alcinnz @bigblen My 17 year old Sony Ericsson does SIP. Mobile internet applications are not a new thing and it's not exactly what many people dislike when they look at smartphones.
Smartphones are devices to do everything. Feature phones are tools with a feature set (hence the name) designed to get specific tasks done without getting in your way.
@erebion right, it's not "The Internet" per se but only the distracting/marketing bits that end up getting included on smartphones. They can technically be included on feature phones too if we want those "features", but we don't 😉
Thanks for putting it in perspective. I never got the chance to experience Internet-enabled feature phones before smartphones became a thing, so my visceral sense in that area is limited 🥲
@badrihippo @alcinnz @bigblen I remember using the mobile internet in 2009, perhaps a bit earlier. First time it was around 20 cents (Euro) per minute, I only used it to to quickly download a less annoying ringtone as I did not have a USB cable.
Around 2010 I acquired a SIM card which had 100 MB of free data each month in exchange for spam mails (which I just deleted), I just pretended I was old enough and then used typos in my name to get up to three of them. One still works, 200 MB now.
@badrihippo @alcinnz @bigblen I've been reading emails on the go back when many people around me did not even have a any mobile phone yet... All of that on an LG Cookie, pretty bad device, but it worked. It could not play music with the email client open, specs were too low.
Back then it mostly was a feature phone, but with a touch screen.
People were very confused why I did not simply use a PC at home.
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