I’ve no idea what market penetration was like on a different continent twenty years ago 😂

Many Nokia phones ran Symbian S60 (I specify because there was a number of Symbian OSes. I’ve never quite pinned down why). Not just Nokia, but in their day Nokia were THE phone company.

I went from a Nokia N90 to an iPhone. The iPhone had fewer features at the time (the app store came later, it couldn’t record video - let alone edit it, etc.). The thing was that the features it did have were so much more user friendly. It was night and day.

Smartphones are surprisingly old although I doubt more than a tiny handful of their users actually knew what they were capable of back in the day. I had my N-Gage setup with a web browser, MSN Messenger client (the IM service of choice in the UK at the time), Xvid video player, Ogg Vorbis audio, office software, and quite a few games too (both Java and native). My N90 could use all the same software when I moved to it a few years later.