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Engadget Mobile Podcast 029 - 11.09.2009
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tarek @ Sep 4th 2007 10:49AM
Destro:
The iPhone is revolutionary because of the UI that it has built in rather than its form factor. It's simply not true that Apple were the first to come up with this form-factor
I'm sorry but this is hardly an iPhone clone. Given when it was announced and when a working model was available for the public to try-out, this phone was being developed well before the iPhone was unveiled. And as for making it distinct, this device has a fold-out QWERTY keyboard and has far more advanced features than the (truly excellent) iPhone. I imagine this phone was developed to take on the very similar HTC devices with fold out keyboards rather than the iPhone. In fact HTC have been making Windows Mobile Devices with this form-factor for a few years now.
The same goes for the LG Prada. This was announced before the iPhone as well and the phones from LG like the KG990 are updates to that device rather than iPhone clones.
Nokia even had their 7700 and 7710 touchscreen devices back in 2004 and more recently have released the N770 and the N800. Of course none of these device are exactly similar to the iPhone but it shows that these form-factors have been around for a while.
The iPhone is a fantastic device. The UI is in a different class and the physical build is fantastic. It just annoys me that people seem to thing that any new phone that is touchscreen based is trying to *clone* it.