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Originally Posted by Quoth
Myth. It was the cheap/easy access to internet via innovative phone contracts. It didn't have copy / paste and in Europe no 3G. The tile finger interface was bought in and already done by others. We were testing a 4G VOIP PDA prototype with a bought in similar interface just befor iPhone release. We had a 2nd prototype using the same Samsung layered ARM cpu (RAM and Flash and CPU in one package to reduce PCB complexity and area).
Apple are x2 to x4 overpriced the last 20 years and over hyped.
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Related: When I saw my first smartphone I wasn't impressed. The reason was that, with the exception of making phone calls and sending text, I was doing most of the things on my Palm OS PDA that I could do on a smartphone...at least half a decade before the first smartphone. Just some of those things included: Reading ebooks, playing games, word processing, database, to-do list, games, calendar, alarms, and e-mails (I would write them on my PDA, sync it with my computer and it would send out outgoing e-mails and loaded received e-mails on my PDA). This was on a device that cost less than $200.
Also, the first iPhone was released in 2007. In 1999 Palm released a smartphone (the Palm VII).