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What was your first smartphone? (lemmy.world)
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My first smartphone was the Nokia 7610 that was gifted to me sometime in 2004.

It had a 176x208 screen with support for 65K colours. It had 8 MB RAM and 64 MB of storage.

It ran on Symbian Series 60 2nd Edition. I don't think there was an app store. I remember getting J2ME apps/games off of third party stores. Note the presence of RealPlayer:

In terms of applications, I had a J2ME version of Google Maps, which was very impressive in 2004; this was when paper maps were still commonly used. The J2ME version of Gmail also felt very futuristic.

It had a browser that could access the regular web (not just WAP). Vast majority of websites had no mobile friendly views, but websites were somewhat simpler then. Google Search did have a good mobile web version as did Google News (if I remember correctly). Keypad navigation actually worked much better than you think it would.

I did listen to MP3s on the Nokia 7610, but you could only put a few on the phone. You technically could also watch videos, but I never tried it.

I believe I kept using this phone all the way till 2007-2008 when I switched to another Symbian device. I only switched to Android with 4.x when I got the HTC One X in 2012.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Never knew about the Handspring and Visor. We had Treos in Eastern Europe (one of my teachers had one in 2003 or so, it even came with mobile internet), but never any Visors.