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by kalleboo 5349 days ago
Aside from Blackberry and Nokia, weren't all smartphones before the iPhone touchscreen? Palm, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericsson UIQ...

Blackberry was never popular where I live, so I mainly saw touchscreen smartphones and Nokias (and I really hesitate to call the nokia symbian phones "smartphones")
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sjwright 5349 days ago
I think there's a pretty substantial difference between touch as defined by the Apple iPhone and "touch" as defined by Windows Mobile 5 or BlackBerry OS 4. Do fingernails and styluses really qualify?
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wvenable 5349 days ago
The TouchFLO UI from HTC (released on the first touch) was designed to be used by your fingers. What they lacked was the capacitive screen of the iPhone.
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