Mobile telephone has come a long way ever since the first mobile phone, DynaTAC was unveiled by Motorola.
Today we list the nine unbelievable things about pre-Android, pre-iOS feature phones which you wont believe existed.
Table Of Contents
1.
Batteries went for weeks
Today if your smartphone battery lasts a whole day, you will count yourself lucky.
Nokias were particularly rugged and could carry on with a single charge for a weeks at end.
The best mobile game was Snake
There was a time when a game called Snake ruled mobile gaming.
You would be surprised to know that people bought the mobile only if it had Snake aboard it.
Snake was first released only for monochrome phones.
Graphics consisted of black squares, and it had 4 directions.
It would take hours for a page to render on your itsy bitsy screen.
We couldnt load proper web pages, let alone music or video.
And all of it was text based.
Nobody wanted a touchscreen
The earliest of the touchscreen phones were rejected by users because they lacked direction.
You had to click a mile away to select a feature.
Using Windows was considered futuristic
In the 2000s Windows powered phone was considered the ultimate test of technology.
Users paid actual money to replace the operator logo
In those days everything came for a fee.
Heck, even incoming calls were charged in those days.
Back in those days mobiles were pretty indestructible with Nokia being one of the most rugged makers.
You could even hit and hurt someone with a Nokia.
Nokia was Apple
Nokia was the king, queen and everything in those days.
Buying a Nokia mobile phone was considered the ultimate target of buyers when lots of other phones existed.
In its hey days, 91?2 people out of 10 bought a Nokia.
It was rugged, it was powerful, it could connect even from sewers and its battery lasted weeks.
Nokia was a dream to own in those days.
source: www.techworm.net
