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I mean, relative to the competition, the original iPhone was certainly rather "full panel"! http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-market.jpg

by Zee2 9y ago

I mean, relative to the competition, the original iPhone was certainly rather "full panel"! http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-market.jpg http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-mar... Devoting the majority of the vertical dimension of the profile of the phone to display was definitely not a priority of the market at the time.

Animats 9y ago
The Nikon CoolPix S80 line of cameras were full-panel displays. That was probably the first full-panel device. This turned out to be less than useful. It's hard to hold the thing stable when taking a picture without touching the touch screen.
kalleboo 9y ago
Looking at only candybar phones is pretty disingenuous. Plenty of smartphones before the iPhone were almost all screen, e.g. the Sony Ericsson P800 that Steve Jobs was said to have used https://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/sonyericsson/snp800_00.jpg https://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/sonyericsson/snp800_00.jpg The problem was they all used a stylus