No they didn't. And you're hardly qualified to comment on such matters anyway since you've previously admitted you don't have a cell phone of any kind LOL. For the record I have an iPhone, a Blackberry, and a Treo, there's still many things I can do on my other phones I can't do on my iPhone, starting with incredibly simple things like cut copy and paste, or picture messaging. It's still a great device, my personal favorite despite its shortcomings, but trying to claim all smart phones sucked before iPhone is ridiculous, especially from someone who doesn't even have one.
Not anymore. I was an early adopter of cell phones but stopped using them regularly a while after I bought a smart phone a few years back. That was a total POS, pretty much top of the line of what was available then. Since then I didn't see anything that even made me want to get a smart phone again until the iPhone. Of course now I've gotten so used to not having a cell phone on me that I can't really justify getting one. But I do have extensive experience with most of the iPhone interface since I have an iPod Touch.
Anyway, welcome back. I take it you ran off to lick your wounds and are all healed up and ready for more.
I have been through quite a few such phones over the pas 5 years everything from Black Berries to the old sprint phones which looked like triquarters, palm phones, windows phones, ....
To be honest the iPhone is the *first* phone that, to me, does not feel clunky so while ‘sucked’ might be a strong term the iPhone is most certainly an evolutionary step forward for the smartphone concept..