You may be right about that, but a smartphone had a definition back in the day. There were touchscreens on non-smartphones and there were smartphones without a

You may be right about that, but a smartphone had a definition back in the day. There were touchscreens on non-smartphones and there were smartphones without a touchscreen, it's the software that makes it smart, not the hardware, whatever the man on the street says. The US didn't get the penetration the rest of the world had by Nokia and others so you folks had a raw deal and shitty carrier-neutered phones until Apple came along. (also I think you once helped me recover my reddit account over IRC like 10 years ago so thanks if that was you)