> much like the original iphone, to get the battery life up, they had to use a tiny(by the standard o the time) CPU, which meant no flash I think you might be

> much like the original iphone, to get the battery life up, they had to use a tiny(by the standard o the time) CPU, which meant no flash I think you might be misinformed. The first-generation iPhone shipped with a 620 MHz ARM CPU that was under-clocked to 412 MHz. Even at the under-clocked speed, it was considerably faster than most other smartphones released in 2007. For example, the Nokia N95 (322 MHz ARM, which admittedly was dual but took very little advantage of that), Palm Centro (312 MHz XScale), HTC Touch (200 MHz), and the BlackBerry Curve 8300 (312 MHz XScale) all had slower clock speeds, and were all released around the same time as the iPhone. A 620 MHz ARM chip, even one that was underclocked, was in 2007 speedy. It was certainly not 'tiny by the standard of the time'. I remember a lot of people complaining about various deficiencies in the iPhone back then (such as the lack of 3G, which was a battery saving measure), but I really can't recall anyone complaining about the chipset.