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Re:Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007) by qbasic_forever on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:02AM (#32699764)
2G had full internet access, it's just that every smartphone until the iphone had _terrible_ browsers. I had a Windows Mobile 5 device and it was pretty bad, like using IE6 again but low resolution, extremely slow, and navigating with a horrid little joystick to select links.
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Re:Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007) by NavinF on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:35AM (#32699930)
The first few iPhones also had terrible browsers. When my dad got one in ~2008, Safari would consistently crash 5 seconds after loading apple.com as soon as an animation was triggered. Still a hell of an improvement over my Razr flip phone’s browser.
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Re:Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007) by seba_dos1 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:09AM (#32700677)
And around that time, Firefox was being ported to Maemo, being essentially a full-blown browser with mobile UI. It worked on Nokia N810 and N900 first and was ported to Android afterwards, serving there for a few years still before it got reimplemented with Android native APIs.

Maemo also came with their own MicroB browser that utilized Gecko engine already and performed really well.

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Re:Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007) by Gordonjcp on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:14AM (#32701078)
It was unbelievably slow, and everyone was already on 3G by the time the first iPhone launched.
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