Lacking Flash in a browser or on a phone at all could be regarded as a shortcoming as well. A PPC phone could run flash from before the iPhone existed. > is no

Lacking Flash in a browser or on a phone at all could be regarded as a shortcoming as well. A PPC phone could run flash from before the iPhone existed. > is not 240x320 half the resolution of 480x320? Is not 16bit color space not as deep as 24bit? Did that HTC indeed have multitouch? So does that mean the HTC touch HD with a 3.8-inch wide, WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) is now clearly superior? > How did that WiFi work seamlesly? Search for 'iphone wifi'. Those in glass houses? What you are doing is defining everything about the iphone as the ultimate. So anything different to it is deficient. You are conveniently forgetting about it's many deficiencies when it launched in 2007 such as - no mobile broadband.