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Sometimes it takes a few tries before they get it right, the iPhone also wasn’t the first touch based screen only phone.
by ako 4y ago
Sometimes it takes a few tries before they get it right, the iPhone also wasn’t the first touch based screen only phone.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoIt wasn't? What were the other ones?
- ako 4y agoIBM Simon was the first in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon I had a Sony Ericsson p900 a few years before the iPhone, it had a small keyboard you’d usually flip out of the way to get a full screen touch display: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P900
- xpl 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada for example. It looks pretty much like iPhone — no keyboard, just touchscreen. But it did not really "spark joy" (I had one), so it wasn't a big success unlike iPhone.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoThanks for posting that, I didn't remember that one. That's one of the only ones I would consider a "true" predecessor to the iPhone - as you say, capacitive touchscreen and no keyboard. Other ones that have a touchscreen but also a number keypad or something like a slideout/flip keyboard are just not ones I would consider in the same category.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI'd day the whole VR movement that played out and then died in the 90's was more than a few tries already. And two decades later still nothing society-altering. I guess I don't think the iPhone comparison is an accurate one.