The mobile web is a fairly new commodity so it seems a little silly to talk about it but the first internet activated phone was actually available in 1999. Much of the mobile web before the iPhone in 2007 was applications for very specific functions such as reading news feeds or email and the data usage was charged by the minute. I remember when I used to accidentally hit the up button on the home screen of my Verizon flip phone and would frantically press the cancel button to not be charged for connecting to the mobile web. That mobile web was a different standard then today’s mobile web, back then we were connecting to the mobile web with 1g. This is when the potential of the mobile wen was not realized and the full power of the social media is just now taking off(Facebook was founded in 2004). These phones had simple web apps on par with today’s mobile web browsers but could only perform one task and at a much slower data transfer rate.
The iPhone which Steve jobs claimed to be 5 years ahead of any other mobile phone was when the mobile web really took off. All of a sudden you could connect your phone to your WiFi and 2g data isn’t unbearably slow. Now there are data plans available for mobile data use because it has become a prevalent. Even by Steve Jobs estimate the competition has caught up as its more than 5 years since January 2007 release date of the iPhone. palm pilots blackberry touchscreen
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