It might've seem funny to those that hadn't seen the future in 2002. I had a SonyEricsson p900 (The p800, p900 and p910 series was released from 2002-2005) and

It might've seem funny to those that hadn't seen the future in 2002. I had a SonyEricsson p900 (The p800, p900 and p910 series was released from 2002-2005) and it had a numpad for quick dialling, but for "smart" usage you really only used the touchscreen that covered most of the front real-estate (and a dial-knob for navigation since they hadn't figured out how to make UI's like Apple did later). By 2006 however though I was looking to upgrade but SE chickened out and released successors (P990,M600,W950) that _decreased_ touch-screen realestate in favour of num/keypads on the front. It's really sad that they had everything in their hands but fubbed out totally. But by 2007 the time was definetly right for the iPhone, disappointed by SE I began looking around and there was some "open" phone with touchscreen as well as that LG Prada. I even made a sketch of an ideal device a few weeks before Jobs came on screen. Late 2006 sketch.. https://whizzter.woorlic.org/jonasphone.jpg https://whizzter.woorlic.org/jonasphone.jpg And yes, about as soon as iPhone 3G went on sale in Sweden I got one.