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> That's blatantly false. Every smartphone I owned going back to 2003 resembled the iPhone. Which phones?
by nwjsmith 15y ago
> That's blatantly false. Every smartphone I owned going back to 2003 resembled the iPhone.
Which phones?
- cma 15y agoEven in 2001 there was the "iPaq". ARM processor, etc. Even used a similar name. No 3d chips were widespread yet, lack of white led tech meant the display sucked too much power, compact flash was tiny, had a resistive screen that was somewhat poorly calibrated, etc.
- YooLi 15y agoHow did you dial phone numbers on the iPaq?
- jerhinesmith 15y agoMine didn't have "phone" capabilities, but the Compaq iPAQs resemble the iPhone. This is pretty close to the one I owned around 2002: http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2002/04/04/comparison_of_six_pdas/compaq.jpg http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2002/04/04/comparison_of_six_...
- YooLi 15y agoLooks nothing like the iPhone and shockingly wasn't even a phone.
- iamdave 15y agoI believe when people are saying the "looks like the iphone" they're referring to device where the primary input method is the screen, with less emphasis on physical buttons.
- wvenable 15y agoThe first Windows Mobile phones were just WinMo PDAs with cellular radios in them. So while the iPaq isn't a phone it's the direct predecessor to many of them.
- fpgeek 15y agoThe iPaq is a particularly direct predecessor as you could get a GSM/GPRS sleeve for it.
- wvenable 15y agoMy first smartphone was a Sony Ericsson P800. Like the iPhone, it had no face buttons. It came with a stylus but the OS was much more finger friendly than many of the phones I used after. Then I "upgraded" to a few HTC phones running Windows Mobile that again were all touch screen.