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		secondcoming on June 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Symbian Won Except they weren't. At the time, the US had really crap phones compared to Europe (which itself was behind Japan). The Nokia N95 could do everything. The original iPhone was pretty much laughed at by Nokia insiders because it lacked so many features. It turns out most users didn't care about most of these (MMS, DTV, Bluetooth)

jbverschoor on June 25, 2020 [–]

Except that they didn’t have a proper browser.

People tend to forget that you had a desktop quality browser in the first iPhone.

secondcoming on June 25, 2020 | [–]

Opera was available for it

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