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I still have my PPC-6700 unlike most original iPhones it still works. I occasionally still use it on Ting. It has a stylus, but it is not “required”. It works fine without the stylus. Despite coming out in 2005... years before the iPhone it still outperformed the original iPhone in many ways, especially when it came to Internet performance. Other than having a multi-touch screen... I would still like a list of what you think that the original iPhone did that the PPC-6700 would not.

Amazing. What makes you think that an original iPhone wouldn't work? I finally retired MY original iPhone from being a phone —which had been passed down through various family members—a year ago last week after seven years of use and it was still on its original battery. It is still being used as an iPod touch by my Three year old grand daughter. . . and still on its original battery.

Your phone was good in its day, but that was ten years ago. . . too bad you think that technology does not advance.

And yes, you may be barely able to make that phone work without the stylus, but to be able to do anything accurately on your PPC-6700 screen you need that stylus, or it would not have been included. And no, it did NOT outperform the iPhone on internet performance because the iPhone could display full desktop internet screens, which up to then, no mobile device could do, being limited to Mobile Web screens. Do you really think that a mobile web experience where you have to scroll from side to side to see the screen, is the same as the iPhone's full featured full web experience, able to see the full page with the ability to scroll around and pinch into any detail needed? I don't think so. The iPhone was NOT limited to just mobile internet and could display the entire desktop experience. YOU really do not know what you are talking about, do you? The only thing the original iPhone would not do was FLASH video, because they ate power. Once Apple allowed apps, there were third party browsers that even allowed that.

Your PPC-6700 is a toy in comparison to the first iPhone and even more so compared to later iPhones. Yours has just 64MB of RAM. . . compared to 128MB of RAM. Yours had only 128Megabytes of storage to which you could add a 32Megabyte card. The iPhone came with 8 to 16Gigabytes! Screen? 2.88 diagonal 64K 16bit TFT screen on your toy, compared to a 3.5" 24 million color screen at twice the resolution. GPS? Don't make me laugh. Yours doesn't have one. Yes, your's can play music, but it's limited in music storage. . . The iPhone could store thousands of songs.

Let's see. . . motion sensors? Yours? Nope. iPhone, yup! Compass? Yours? Nope. iPhone, yup! Visual Voice Mail, where you could see who called and select which message to listen to or not. . . your phone, NOPE. iPhone, yup!

How many photos could you store on your toy? At 1.8 megapixels in full color? Not too many? The average full color photo that rear cam on that phone was capable of is about 3.4 Megs in size. . . so Maybe 10 or 15 with all the other stuff on there? Can you still play your Plays for Sure music? Probably not, because Microsoft abandoned it. . . oh, too bad. The iPhone could store hundreds or thousands. Oops.

Your efforts as an apologist for the hired goons in the Apple legal department are admirable, but nothing can change the fact that they are a bunch of bullies whose efforts stifle innovation.

Do you still claim that the Samsung Galaxy 3S phone on the left was not essentially identical to the iPhone 3Gs on the right after I showed you the photos of them side by side???? If you cannot see that they are identical in appearance, they you are blind as a bat. . . and apparently willfully so.

So my challenge is to post all those phones you claim predate the iPhone that did all of that and could have made the sea change that apple did.

You don't have a clue about innovation, fireman15. Samsung and the others are free to innovate. . . but they have to do their OWN inventing and their OWN designs, not copy Apple's or steal their intellectual property. A jury found that Samsung stole Apple's IP and awarded Apple every bit of the profit that Samsung made on the products they sold using that stolen IP. The courts so far have validated that jury's decision . . . but in this instance, using the twisted Ninth Circuit Court's definition of a Design Patents, that they cannot have any functional use at all, they are sending those back for reconsideration, even though it was the Ninth Circuit that had just ruled the design patents valid! Go figure.

I am not the only one who knows that the Apple iPhone made this sea change and it was a total innovation. . .

How the iPhone changed the mobile game
  The mobile revolution really started in 2007 with Apple ’ s introduction of the iPhone. The iPhone radically and irreversibly redefined mobile devices with relatively fast and simple Web access, an innovative and intuitive touch screen, and the creation/promotion of mobile applications and a mobile app marketplace.
Previously, wireless devices largely functioned as wireless telephones or wireless email devices.
With the iPhone, the world’s first consumer smartphone, mobile devices became mobile computers that also serve as voice and text communication devices. . .
The iPhone enabled its users to directly surf the Internet through its mobile Safari browser instead of using the mobile carrier’s own portal, providing device manufacturers direct customer and revenue relationships.— Source Mobile Marketer—Extracted from "Smartphones, tablets and the mobile revolution" by Colin Knudsen, January 23, 2013

And more, the language is a bit awkward having been translated from who knows where:

Apple Revolution
In 2007, then came an event that changed the world of smartphones far more than anything before. Apple is after years of speculation in January introduced its iPhone. And although it was not the first case of a smartphone, Because in it yet could not install applications, determine its iPhone user interface is clearly the direction in which to go down all smartphones in the coming years.

Putting the iPhone ushered in a gradual retreat from Nokia until unshakable position and fame. At the same time Apple actually canceled the stylus – the stylus, which was needed to control the majority until sold touch devices. In that year, while Nokia launches it s most advanced smartphone Symbian without touchscreens. Model N95, which was before the iPhone introduced in 2006, although the early software sales have plagued various problems, but smartphone represent that could be the best in the world of mobile phones to find. — Source Extracted from "Smartphones History Review Over 20 Years" — Genius Techs

The only apologist I see here is you, trying desperately to denigrate Apple's achievements and innovations in any way you can.

And no, it did NOT outperform the iPhone on internet performance.

The original iPhone did not have a 3g radio. If you want to make the argument that your 2G device that performed at about the same or lesser speed than a 56k modem as compared to a 3G device that worked at speeds comparable to DSL or cable modems of the time period... I find that quite amusing and revealing. You are getting into what most people would consider fantasy land however. Can your original iPhone tether to a computer? I don't think so! LOL!!!

And no; you don't need the stylus to use the PPC-6700 effectively. I am glad that your iPhone is still working. How did you replace the battery? Did you send it in before Apple stopped servicing them? LOL!!!

Yours has just 64MB of RAM. . . compared to 128MB of RAM. Yours had only 128Megabytes of storage to which you could add a 32Megabyte card. The iPhone came with 8 to 16Gigabytes

Either you are just making stuff up now, or you don't know the specs on the PPC-6700 or the original iPhone. The original iPhone came with either 4GBs or 8GBs, 16GBs was not available until the 3G model was released. The mini-SD card that came with my PPC-6700 was 1GB which I upgraded to 2GBs and later to 4GBs. It came with 128 MB (Flash memory) built in, and 64 MB Ram.

Of coarse the camera in the iPhone had a better sensor; it was after all released years after the PPC-6700. Other than claiming the PPC-6700 which was released years before the iPhone was a toy in comparison... You still haven't told me anything that the iPhone would do that the PPC-6700 would not. The display on the PPC-6700 can zoom in and out, move side to side and up and down, all without the aid of a stylus.