It had apps (Maps, Contacts, Safari, to mention a few), but no third party ones (Maps used Google data, but AFAIK, was 100% written by Apple, and certainly was installed by Apple in the firmware image)
Nah. I was using a cheap Nokia 3230 in 2008 when looking for a replacement. the iPhone had just been released and it could not offer me a number of features I had been used to for years:
- Video calling (they didn't get front facing camera for ages)
- Video recording. Of any kind.
- Picture messaging. I can't remember if they offered any kind of MMS support.
- Voice commands (they didn't work terribly well but had been a feature of Nokia phones for ages)
- Third party apps
- Text copy/paste
- About a week of battery charge, depending on use.
So I bought an N95 instead, and had that for 8 years until it basically fell apart. Its original battery was still getting more life from a charge at this sorry stage than a new iPhone/Android replacement.
