2010 Search

42 reconstructed results for feature phone in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Feature phones - What most of the world actually carried

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones

   Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...

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2. Opera Mini - The browser that made feature-phone internet bearable

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini

   Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...

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3. Texting in 2010 - Trillions of SMS messages, unlimited plans, and T9 thumbs

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sms-texting

   Text messaging peaked in the early 2010s: Americans sent well over a trillion texts a year, teenagers sent thousands a month, and unlimited texting was the must-have...

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4. poke

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-poke

   poke: A Facebook feature that notified someone you had poked them, and nothing else. Nobody knew what it meant. Example: "why does my aunt keep poking me"

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5. Windows Phone 7 - Metro live tiles and a fresh start for Microsoft

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7

   Windows Phone 7 replaced the stylus-era Windows Mobile with a flat, typographic interface of live tiles and hubs, launching in October and November 2010. Reviewers...

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6. Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin

   Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...

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7. Windows Phone 7 launch phones - Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and the Metro tiles

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7-devices

   Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe on 21 October 2010 and in the US on 8 November, with phones such as the Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and LG Quantum. The Metro...

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8. The mobile web in 2010 - m.facebook.com, WAP pages, and a web that did not fit

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-web-2010

   In 2010 the mobile web meant separate m.sites with stripped-down layouts (m.facebook.com, m.youtube.com), WAP pages on feature phones, and pinch-zooming full desktop...

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9. Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s

   The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...

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10. Digg - Social news, and the redesign that broke it

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/digg

    Digg let users "digg" stories onto a front page that could crash a small website with traffic. In August 2010, Digg version 4 removed favourite features, let publishers...

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11. Wikipedia - Three and a half million articles and a new default skin

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikipedia

    Wikipedia was nine years old in 2010 and by far the largest reference work ever assembled, with the English edition approaching 3.5 million articles. In May the site...

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12. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - The $29 upgrade with no new features, and the Mac App Store on the way

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mac-os-x-snow-leopard

    Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5...

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13. HTML5 - Native video, canvas and the end of plugins, still a draft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/html5

    HTML5 was a working draft in 2010, but the fight over Flash made it a household word. YouTube launched an HTML5 player beta in January, Apple published a showcase in...

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14. WordPress.com - Hosted WordPress, and the software running the blogosphere

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wordpress-com

    WordPress powered a large share of the blogs and news sites of 2010, and WordPress.com offered hosted blogs with themes and stats for free. WordPress 3.0, released in...

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15. Groupon - One deal a day, and a $6 billion offer refused

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/groupon

    Groupon emailed one local deal a day, half-price yoga classes or restaurant vouchers, that only activated if enough people bought in. It was called the fastest-growing...

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16. Yelp - Reviews of everything, and fights with restaurants

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yelp

    Yelp's crowd-sourced reviews of restaurants and shops were a habit for city dwellers in 2010, and its iPhone app was among the first with an augmented-reality feature...

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17. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/newgrounds

    Newgrounds was the original home of Flash games and animations, where amateur creators uploaded movies and games for the community to rate. In 2010 its Flash Portal...

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18. Armor Games - Sponsor of the best Flash games

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/armor-games

    Armor Games sponsored and hosted many of the highest-quality Flash games of the era, including tower-defence hits and puzzle games, with a brown-and-orange site and a...

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19. Logitech Revue with Google TV - Google puts Chrome on your television

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/logitech-revue-google-tv

    Google TV launched in October 2010 on the $299 Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony televisions, promising web search and Chrome on the big screen with a full keyboard...

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20. Opera 10.5 and Opera 11 - Small share, big ideas: Turbo, Speed Dial and tab stacking

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-10-5

    Opera had only around 2 percent of desktop browser usage in 2010 but kept inventing features others copied: Speed Dial, mouse gestures, Opera Turbo compression, and, in...

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21. Nexus One - Google's own Android phone, sold online

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one

    Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...

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22. HTC Evo 4G - The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g

    Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...

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23. Nokia N8 - A 12-megapixel camera and the last hope for Symbian

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-n8

    The Nokia N8, released in October 2010, had the best camera on any phone, a 12-megapixel sensor with a Carl Zeiss lens and HDMI output. It ran Symbian^3, which reviewers...

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24. Nokia 5230 - The cheap touchscreen Nokia that sold in the tens of millions

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-5230

    Nokia was still the world's biggest phone maker in 2010, and phones like the 5230, a low-cost touchscreen Symbian handset, were why. It sold enormously across Europe,...

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25. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo

    Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...

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26. sexting - Sending sexual texts or photos by phone; a moral-panic word of 2009-2010.

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    sexting: Sending sexual texts or photos by phone; a moral-panic word of 2009-2010. Example: "a school assembly about sexting"

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27. HTC Desire - The Nexus One with Sense, and Europe's Android favourite

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-desire

    The HTC Desire was essentially a Nexus One with HTC's Sense interface, an optical trackpad and physical buttons. Released in Europe in spring 2010, it became one of the...

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28. BlackBerry Bold 9700 - The keyboard phone of the business world and the school corridor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-bold-9700

    The Bold 9700 was the definitive 2010 BlackBerry: a compact QWERTY keyboard, an optical trackpad, the red blinking notification light, and BlackBerry Messenger....

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29. iPod touch (4th generation) - An iPhone 4 without the phone, and the teenager's first iOS device

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-touch-4

    The September 2010 iPod touch borrowed the iPhone 4's Retina display, A4 chip and FaceTime camera, starting at $229. For millions of teenagers it was the first App Store...

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30. iPhone 4 - Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-4

    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera...

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