Mobile phone apps are nothing new, just like everything else with the web, something old is improved by making it faster, easier and quicker to deploy. Then with some fancy marketing its considered the next best thing! Some recent good examples are AJAX, HTML5 and CS3. I can remember when I was 16 which is nearly 12 years ago now, having my first smart phone or Pocket PC as they were called back then. Mobile Apps back then were perhaps not as popular or in the media as they are now but they were still on your mobile phone to make it do extra things and I don’t ever recall calling them apps, it was software. Software for your phone.

You also have to consider the market that these phones were targeted at, which was businessmen and women, this is because the phones were still quite fragile, expensive and they were designed with business use in mind. Like collecting your e-mail and surfing the Internet.

I can still remember downloading the software (apps), it was not as simple as it is nowadays, you had to connect your phone to the PC, then download a file which when executed would then install on your phone, you then had to agree to the install and you would then see the files moving across and install at the same time. Oh the wonders of technology.

The apps/software back then was no different from days, you still had games, music and specific software like TOMTOM SatNav which you had to pay for £99 I can remember! Most phones have SavNat for free now (iPhone does not).

Because it was a Windows phone you could link it up to your PC and be able to modify the code in the software application. So you could change images and sounds very easy. If you was feeling more adventurous you could look at the code and make tweaks, however those tweaks I made probably did more harm than good! Even back then flash was not available for your mobile phone due to its heavy download size and remember back then you had to pay per Megabyte!

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