There was also the Handspring Visor Phone (2000) and the Qualcomm PDQ (1999). And then there where a bunch of phones from Nokia, the Windows CE phones, etc. App

There was also the Handspring Visor Phone (2000) and the Qualcomm PDQ (1999). And then there where a bunch of phones from Nokia, the Windows CE phones, etc. Apple wasn't the first, we all know that. I'd say that the iPhone has as much a spiritual debt to the Newton as it does to the touchscreen phones that came before it.