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I purchased my first “smart phone”, a Sprint ppc-6700 aka the HTC Apache in late 2005 approximately two years before the first I-phone was released. It was rectangular with round corners. It came with the Windows Mobile 5 operating system which was later upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.

It was a technological marvel in its day. To take the best advantage of all of its features one had to be a little tech savvy. It was never a problem for me, but to keep it running fast and get good battery life you needed to shut down apps manually that kept running in the background. This did cause some negative reviews at the time from people who did not know how to do this.

As usual Apple latched on to many of the advance features of “smart phones” that came out years ahead of the I-phone. These phones didn't catch on the way that the I-phone did largely because of Apple's superior marketing. When I saw the first I-phone I was not impressed at all, and had a hard time understanding what the big deal was.

The first I-phone didn't even have 3G connectivity something that allowed me to tether my laptop to my PPC-6700 and was one of my primary uses since my plan at that time allowed unlimited and unrestricted tethering for a very reasonable price.

It was rectangular with round corners. It came with the Windows Mobile 5 operating system which was later upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.

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.