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No. There was a Palm Treo smartphone without a keyboard first. It even had a 3rd party app ecosystem.

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• tempestn 10y ago
  All the pictures I can find of Palm Treos have keyboards. Which model was it that didn't?
  • roel_v 10y ago
    Some models of the Tungsten didn't have keyboard. Most palms didn't, the advantage of the treo was that it did so you didn't have to learn the palm handwriting system. The screens weren't sensitive enough for on screen keyboards.
    • tempestn 10y ago
      Ya, I should have phrased my original comment differently. The iPhone was the first phone that effectively made the on-screen keyboard unnecessary. Past devices did without one, but not without a significant loss of functionality.