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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by nwjsmith on Thursday February 23, 2012 @01:57PM (#3626190)
> That's blatantly false. Every smartphone I owned going back to 2003 resembled the iPhone.

Which phones?

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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by jerhinesmith on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:05PM (#3626228)
Mine 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_...

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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by YooLi on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:12PM (#3626255)
Looks nothing like the iPhone and shockingly wasn't even a phone.
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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by iamdave on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:23PM (#3626308)
I 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.
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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by wvenable on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:50PM (#3626422)
The 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.
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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by fpgeek on Friday February 24, 2012 @01:44AM (#3628278)
The iPaq is a particularly direct predecessor as you could get a GSM/GPRS sleeve for it.
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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by wvenable on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:42PM (#3626383)
My 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.
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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by cma on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:04PM (#3626223)
Even 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.
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Re:If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone by YooLi on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:13PM (#3626256)
How did you dial phone numbers on the iPaq?
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