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Originally Posted by Dylrob
The original Touch also had a radically different design. The corners aren't equally rounded. The glass doesn't go edge to edge (it's not even flush). There is a metal rim, but it's not visible from the front. The screen isn't centered. And it doesn't display colorful icons when turned on.
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The glass was flush -- which was the real technological innovation at that point. I guess it had one of the earliest iterations of HTC Sense, so there were colorful icons, too. A centered screen goes back to the Treo 270/300 and early HP PDAs some of which were all touch screens. I had the HP 6350 which had a detachable keyboard. Usually buttons were kept only for gamers, which wanted the buttons to control movements, rather than on screen ones like on the O2 Flame. All evolutionary, based on advances in production technology.