[mattbrewsbytes]

I think the iPhone is the perfect example of innovation. At the time you had cell phones with SMS and you had MP3 music players like iPod, etc. Innovation there is combining it all into one product with a touch screen. Blackberry was the closest but still their designs were strongly based on SMS messaging.

What isn't innovation: adding more megapixels to a camera lens on a phone or more <something> (CPU speed, hard drive size, network speed, etc.) which is more about us finding better ways to engineer something and shrinking existing tech. There may be innovations in the process but I don't see those as innovative products themselves.