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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week agolater than 2005 for most people, the first iPhone was released in 2007, first Android phone in 2008, those things made a lot more people practically able to access the Internet from outside, and even then it took until 2009 to 2011 for many people to get one
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Google maps didn’t exist prior to the iPhone/android period as well, so people with blackberrys didn’t have access to that before Android/iphone 07-08
jodanlime@midwest.social 1 week ago
I had Google maps on my Nokia SymbianOS phone before the iPhone was released. It worked just as well as modern version but was I little clunkier to use without a touchscreen. I’m pretty sure that Palm Treos had it as well. There where also some other options, I kinda remember Garmin selling map packs for Palm devices. Smartphones existed before android and iPhone, even if they weren’t as widespread they were catching on with the broader consumer before the iPhone was released. You saw more more people getting blackberries for personal use instead of just business.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Are you sure it wasnt another app? What I see is that it launched with the first iPhone. (Was a website previous to that to print directions like MapQuest and what not)
jodanlime@midwest.social 1 week ago
en.softonic.com/…/google-maps-goes-native-on-symb…
This is one of the only things I can find talking about it, but I’m sure I used Google maps with GPS on SymbianOS.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Google Maps seems to have been launched in 2005, so it did exist, though maybe not as a smartphone app.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah it was a website like MapQuest, just a bit better.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
It still is a website too, that was never abolished.