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Re:I Quit: What really goes on at Apple by soperj on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @06:50PM (#9344660)
There were so many smartphones before the iPhone, the main thing that Apple added was touch, which allowed them to have full screens. Not like it wasn't going that way anyway, LG prototyped a phone like that a year before the iphone came out.
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Re:I Quit: What really goes on at Apple by ptx on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @07:36PM (#9344905)
Not even that. Sony Ericsson P800 had a touch screen, apps, multitasking (with automatic termination of background tasks, just like Android and iOS) - in 2002! This was using Symbian and their UIQ interface (now dead).

Apple did introduce capacitive touch screens though, as far as I know, getting rid of the stylus. And they had a very attractive UI at launch. But not much was really new.

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Re:I Quit: What really goes on at Apple by simplexion on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:42AM (#9345815)
LG didn't just prototype a phone. They released the LG Prada.
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