Not to forget Opera Mini which did server-side rendering for mobiles. Results were WAP-like quality and mostly sucked (by nature of device's capabilities back then).
I disagree. Opera mini allowed me to browse the web almost normally (I was using a Nokia E65) and I never really understood why I regularly see people saying the iPhone brought internet to smartphones or something of the sort.
I also used Opera on my old Symbian phone. Probably the number of iPhones after two or three years was larger than the number of mobile devices that people actually used to browse the web before the iPhone. Nevertheless where I live (Italy) the number of Android devices were always greater than the number of iPhones. I'm thinking about the Galaxy S and S2 in the very early 2010s and the other flagship phones of the day. So, the iPhone brought the touchscreen to the masses (the iPod too), Android brought the mobile internet.
Yes I give them touch screen. I admit I was a touch screen skeptic (the kind of person who became mad when someone would touch a screen so doing that on a regular basis seemed a really bad idea to me ^^) and did not get a phone with a touch screen until much later, when they were basically the only option :)
Disagree. In 2007 I used a Nokia 6300 (https://i.imgur.com/5ezXN1R.png) and I had an unlimited data plan for €10/month (because, who was going to use a lot of data on 2G on a small feature phone?).
I used to smoothly browse the web on it using Opera Mini. It had a simulated mouse and rendered most stuff excellently.
