Right. Sure. PPC-6700:
It looks nothing like the design of the first iPhone.
nice try, as you've tried before with your resistance single touch feature phone claims. it had only 128 MB internal storage. . . it was not a smartphone. HTC even referred to it as a PDA phone.
Swordmaker shame on you. As usual you exaggerate and mislead to make your point. The PPC-6700 was far more capable than the first I-phone by nearly every measure. They chose a slide-out keyboard rather than a touch screen which gave it a tactile feel and kept the display clear which made it far quicker to type on.
As far as and memory and storage goes... it had 128 MB (Flash memory), 64 MB Ram, and a slot for a memory card which worked seamlessly with the operating system. Most people I knew filled the slot with as big a card as they could afford. One should remember that it came out 2 years ahead of the I-phone and memory at that time was rapidly becoming more and more affordable. The first memory card that I bought had 1GB, the second had 2GBs.
When the first I-phone came out... it lacked the most important feature of the PPC-6700... high speed internet access and the ability to tether to a laptop. When the first I-phone came out I am not aware of even one useful function that it could perform that we PPC-6700 users were not already doing.
And that is the comedy of all of your arguments here. You always focus on pictures and not function. What you are referring to as far as technology are not revolutionary ideas... they are evolutionary developments. I applaud Apple for stealing so many good ideas from companies such as HTC, Samsung, and IBM and incorporating them into the first I-phone. But face it even phones with touch screens came out several years before the first I-phone. Nearly all technological devices become more capable and smaller or thinner as time goes by.
So of course two years after the HTC-6700 came out when the first I-phone was released there had been some advances in electronic components... But released the same time as the I-phone was the HTC-Titan, which did away with the external antenna stub, was thinner, came with more memory, and higher capacity memory cards. And even the PPC-6700 had cute little icons that you could use to represent apps. So your points on appearance are completely moot.
Just as a slide-out keyboard is much quicker to input data on than an onscreen keyboard... the different types of touch screens each have their own advantages. With a small display the precision of a resistive touch screen vs. the sloppiness of a capacitive display makes it much more useful for a variety of tasks.
Calling the PPC-6700 a “feature phone” is a laugh. It came with a mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer. I preferred to use Opera as my Internet Browser. I purchased a tiny Bluetooth GPS sender that gave it several moving map options. It had numerous programs available for video and music playback of just about any format. this is not to mention a plethora of other apps for both gaming and productivity. The PPC-6700 was no “feature phone... you are full of it. By the time that Apple came out with the first I-phone, Windows Mobile had an impressive head start with the amount of software that was available.
I would not dispute that Apple had a superior marketing team and strategy and they sold far more I-phones. That is what Apple does. They mostly steal ideas from other companies and people. They smooth out the rough edges, have their legal department buy up a patent or two and then market the hell out of whatever device they come up with. I would dispute that the first i-phone had a revolutionary appearance, design or feature set. It was simply an evolution from previous devices that it “borrowed” its “features” from. The first I-phone was no more capable when it came out than many other devices that came before it. The I-phone had to go through several model changes before it had the feature set that people think of today.
Microsoft is the company that started using the term “smartphone” back in 2002, but Windows CE devices first came out in 1996 long before the I-phone was even a glimmer in Steve Job's eye. I had a pda in 2000, the Sony CLIÉ seven years before the first I-phone was released. It had more useful apps available when I bought it than the first i-phone did when it was released. I also had a Blackberry phone. These were all devices that Apple “borrowed” ideas from. And by the way... they basically all were rectangular with rounded corners. If common sense prevails, Samsung will eventually have the last laugh.