Going through my devices draw I happened to pull out one of my old SmartPhones (or at least what used to be called SmartPhones), the old Orange C600 (made by HTC).
It lead me to think about the complete SmartPhone series, currently the iPhone and Android phones are now dubbed the SmartPhone and the older style phones that didn’t have app installs or widgets are now classed as ‘feature phones’. The Orange C600 was a phone that straddled between both categories it had app support but it wasn’t a touch screen device.
It seems that the non-touch screen devices are on the way out, not many manufacturers make them now. All new devices are touch-screen devices, and most now don’t even sport a hardware keyboard. It’s kind of interesting being in the Tech World and seeing how things evolve year from year. It was only 4-5 years ago that phones like the Orange C600 were the in-phone, now it’s just a blast from the past relegated to the phone graveyard in the sky.
The Orange C600 was great because it was a Windows Mobile device, you could install Windows Mobile (non-touch-screen) apps to it, it operated as a very good phone and synced your contacts natively from Outlook using ActiveSync. It was clean, simple and workable. How things have moved on…..
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