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Yes the penetration of smartphones is increasing, but I personally know a lot of people who don't want smartphone. For example, 2 out of 3 of my friends who owns iPhone said to me that "...but my previous nokia [dumbphone] was better", and are not planing to buy another smartphone. So it's still an open question what the ratio between smartphone and dumbphone will be in the future. But Nokia's dumbphones are certainly not going away anytime soon.

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Wait until the internet capabilities on smartphones get realised.

On a bus for 30 minutes? Use the phone to browse HN. etc

Almost any phone can browse the web today.

Yeah, but not in a way that approaches the usefulness of a desktop browser.

Yep, Nokia N900 is the only phone accomplishing that :-)

For example, Android and iOS browsers skipped the rather useful contentEditable functionality. On my N900 I have it.

what does it do?

Edit: OK, not that I know what it does, what do you use it for on your N900?

http://html5demos.com/contenteditable

Suffice it to say, this is not the reason why smartphones are so much better at browsing the web than feature phones.

The N900 also has the only implementation of Firefox Mobile. Adblock Plus is in my pocket.

Actually, it's on Android as well. I haven't tried it for a few versions (it...needed some work then), but it is available.

Install Opera Mini.

There are many things you can do on the phone. Not that many you want to do, given the experience.

If browsing the web on the phone is as easy as on iOS or Android it’s not a dumb phone, it’s a smart phone.

Its a better experience on some phones than others; "Surfing the web" in Blackberry's browser is closer to "drowning the web" and rendering nothing correctly.

You can do that with old phones that have WAP browsers. OK. Someone needs to write WAP proxy for HN :)

That's what I do every time I'm on a bus :)

I do the same on the Phoenix light rail; This site's layout performs really well on mobile devices; Loading a beast like Digg on my N900 would make me twitch for kill -9.

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