Samsung SPH-i300 In the hands of ordinary users by 2000 or 2001. No keyboard, no numpad, no d-pad, color touch screen, home screen with a grid of 3rd party ap

Samsung SPH-i300 In the hands of ordinary users by 2000 or 2001. No keyboard, no numpad, no d-pad, color touch screen, home screen with a grid of 3rd party app icons, even internet so those apps even include email and web browser. So it was very much a smartphone like today, not just a palm pda, and one in the all-screen form not the Treo/Blackberry form. The specs and tech are all 7 years earlier because the device is 7 years earlier. Neither Apple nor Android invented that screens got better and cell networks got 3g in that time etc. All Apple did was have Steve's high standards to produce a product that didn't look and feel like every other normal silver painted plastic product (including the i300), with 7 years later tech. That is something, and even something significant, but to try to say that Android is a stolen product is ridiculous, unless you want to say it was stolen from Samsung! But it wasn't stolen from them either. It just wasn't a new or unique idea in general by then. Devices with OS's and interfaces like that had already existed for many years, they just weren't phones simply because the cell network itself didn't exist yet.