[chrissyb]

Totally agree, i sometimes reminisce about the good ol' days with my Nokia N70 i bought in 2005. Here's some memorable achievements:

- I watched most of the world cup 2006 games live streamed over 3G. -I used to frequently use google maps which without GPS would use cell towers triangulate my position within a couple hundred meter radius. - Used it as a wireless AP -And even uploaded videos to youtube.

When i first heard of the iPhone i wasn't that impressed as i already been using what i considered a smartphone. Obviously i that's all changed now! ;)

[soylentcola]

I remember at the time being a bit nerd-irritated over the iPhone release. At first I was thrilled because I'd fallen in love with smart phones starting with the early Treos and into the HTC PocketPCs. The one thing they always got wrong was poor graphics drivers/acceleration so even though they did so many things, it was like using a Windows PC with the generic VGA drivers (laggy scrolling, etc).

iPhone really fixed that one thing but at the time I was outraged (outraged!) that to get that smooth UI performance I'd have to give up 3rd party apps, 3G, MMS, GPS, (shitty by today's standards) video calling, copy/paste, task switching, and even the ability to change my wallpaper or ringtone!

Kind of amusing today with the relative parity between mobile OSes and the abundance of models to choose from but at the time I just remember being so frustrated with how no single company seemed capable of putting everything into one device. Still, those Treos and PPCs laid the groundwork for the insanely capable and useable devices many of us carry in our pockets today.