Sure there were lots of devices doing subsets of the features of iPhone but the feature set and execution of the iPhone was in a completely different class.
The fact that the same fundamental design still dominates 15 years later shows how remarkable a feat of product design it really was.
I didn’t say subset of features (because it literally wasn’t a subset of features). And the modern iPhone is very different from the originally released device.
This is exactly the kind of revisionist history I was on about.
I also used GPS navigation with Google Maps on my feature phone years before the iPhone was released.
I’m not dismissing the iPhone as a bad device (I have an iPhone and other Apple hardware) but it certainly wasn’t first to market on any of this stuff. If anything, I’d describe it as a device that popularised the emerging trend rather than defining it.