What Android Looked Like Right Before the iPhone Launched

[Zingam_Duo]

[citation][nom]azetec[/nom]You should all do a reality check and see that companies like Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Nokia and Motorola are in telecommunication business and some of them producing mobile phones since 1981. From 1981 till 2007 all these companies have produced hundreds of mobile phones models and have sold billions of units worldwide before y.[/citation]

Dude, why do you need to explain all of this? These kids weren't even born before year 2000!

 

[jurassic512]

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]Makes you wonder if the modern smartphone would have existed without the iPhone.[/citation]

ROFLMAO!

 

[pacioli]

The LG KE850 Prada from 2006 looks a lot like an iphone... before the iphone...
http/www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/lg-ke850---prada-3d-model/361234

 

[azetec]

Just did a little more search and found dozen more models of smartphones that came out to the market way before iPhone was released in 2007:
- models released since 2002 from Dell Axim X5 family:
Dell Axim X5
Dell Axim x50v
Dell Axim X30
- more models released since year 2003 upwards:
HP iPAQ hx4700
HP iPAQ rx3700
ASUS MYPAL A730
O2 XDA IIs
O2 XDA II
O2 XDA II mini
O2 XDA mini S
O2 XDA IIi
O2 XDA Neo
O2 XDA Exec
O2 XDA mini S
O2 XDA Trion
O2 XDA Orbit
Qtek S100
Qtek S110
Qtek 2020i
Qtek S200
Qtek 9000
Qtek 9090
Qtek 9100
Qtek 2020
Qtek 9600
i-mate JAM
i-mate JAMin
i-mate JASJAM
i-mate PDA2k
i-mate PDA2
i-mate K-JAM
i-mate Pocket PC
http/www.gsmarena.com/htc_pocketpc_smartphone.php3

 

[azetec]

Models released since 2002 upwards:
Dopod 686
Dopod 818
Dopod 828
Dopod 818 Pro
Dopod 838
Dopod 838 Pro
Dopod D810/CHT 9100
Dopod D600
Dopod P860

 

[molo9000]

[citation][nom]pacioli[/nom]The LG KE850 Prada from 2006 looks a lot like an iphone... before the iphone...http/www.turbosquid.com/3d-model [...] del/361234[/citation]

The LG Prada looks like the iPhone, but it had horrible software that didn't really utilize the touchscreen properly. It was basically a dumb phone with a touchscreen and an insane price tag.

People can argue all they want, but there simply were no multitouch smartphones before the iPhone.

 

[Guest]

Here's what SamSUCK's products looked like before and after the iPhone (warning: try hard NOT to laugh!)

http/peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/custom/Apple-vs-Samsung-1-Hardware-Design.html

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]samSUCK0005[/nom]Here's what SamSUCK's products looked like before and after the iPhone (warning: try hard NOT to laugh!)http/peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/c [...] esign.html[/citation]

Those pictures are doctored idiot. I guess you've never seen those in real life, so you wouldn't know.

 

[lathe26]

The interesting thing is how the industry reacted to the iPhone:

Google: Aborted launch of original design, came out >1 year later with competitive product, result = large smartphone marketshare.

Blackberry: slow to react, took several iterations of products to make competitive products, customers lost faith, couldn't shake "business phone" view by customers, result = moderate but shrinking marketshare.

Microsoft: mocked iPhone originally, slow to start development, slow to finish development, released competitive product very late to market, result = puny marketshare but might grow.

 

[getreal]

[citation][nom]a_delusional_child[/nom]Those pictures are doctored idiot. I guess you've never seen those in real life, so you wouldn't know.[/citation]

Wow. Most pathetic post I've seen yet. Delusional kids are rampant on this site!

Get yourself admitted to the nearest mental health facility, ASAP!

 

[robochump]

First Android was basically a BB clone now an iOS clone...heh. Though competition will make both better.

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]Makes you wonder if the modern smartphone would have existed without the iPhone.[/citation]
Nokia's phones really look like they were the basis for the modern smartphone, not the iPhone

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Those pictures are doctored idiot. I guess you've never seen those in real life, so you wouldn't know.[/citation]

Okay, sorry about the idiot part, that was too rude. However, the point remains.

 

[sonofliberty08]

Dopod = HTC
they are the same company 😉

 

[gregor]

[citation][nom]samSUCK0005[/nom]Here's what SamSUCK's products looked like before and after the iPhone (warning: try hard NOT to laugh!)http/peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/c [...] esign.html[/citation]
Riiiiiight, someone didnt read the posts about the LG above. If they had they would realise that of the 15 *trademark* points for the iPhone, 11 of them could be said to have existed on the Prada, which was apparently released before the iPhone. Some mention colours as if noone else is allowed to have a black device, or nobody else is allowed to make phone with colour displays.
As pointed out, Apple were not the first with a touchscreen phone, shock horror they werent even the first with a black with silver edge touchscreen phone, so please behave iFanboys.

 

[nuvon]

I am not an Apple fanboy, but you Apple haters have to admit that, all the smart phones these days follow iPhone one way or another, if not copy

 

[Seanreisk]

I use an Android phone and I have four Windows PC. I don't own a single Apple product. However, I've had to support both PCs and Macintosh's for the last 20 years, and I know the history from both sides of the aisle. Apple innovates more than any other company, and if they don't explicitly invent something, they do something much more important - the make technology work properly so that people want it.

And after Apple proves that their designs make for a successful product, other companies come in and copy it. Apple didn't invent the cell phone, but the first iPhone set the template for the future of cell phone design.

But all of these idiots (like wind82) saying that Apple copied the Pocket PC and the Palm ... Does anyone remember the Newton? Does anyone else remember that the term 'PDA' was created at Apple?

 

[DjEaZy]

... i do imagine, how google haz gone back to the drawing boards after they witnessed the birth of iPhone... i do belive, that google copied iPhone, but enhanced it by the information, that google got from search, like: hardware keyboard... google, after the introduction of original iPhone, don't needed any R'n'D to put in the google first phone... they just copied the iPhone and added some things, that google waz seeing in the search for the features, that iPhone users are missing, like: storage expansion, hardware keyboards and so on...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Seanreisk[/nom]I use an Android phone and I have four Windows PC. I don't own a single Apple product. However, I've had to support both PCs and Macintosh's for the last 20 years, and I know the history from both sides of the aisle. Apple innovates more than any other company, and if they don't explicitly invent something, they do something much more important - the make technology work properly so that people want it. And after Apple proves that their designs make for a successful product, other companies come in and copy it. Apple didn't invent the cell phone, but the first iPhone set the template for the future of cell phone design. But all of these idiots (like wind82) saying that Apple copied the Pocket PC and the Palm ... Does anyone remember the Newton? Does anyone else remember that the term 'PDA' was created at Apple?[/citation]

There were M$ tablets before the iPad, there were smart phones before the iPhone, there were MP3 players before the iPod (in fact, Apple lost several law suits related to this because their first MP3 players were practically identical to the ones already in the market made by other companies), the list goes on. Apple didn't invent or even innovate the market anymore than others; they simply made it trendy, so more people would look at the market.

Sure, Apple has made some innovations, but most of the innovations are not Apple; Apple simply copies others and makes them white (a slight over-exaggeration there, but it's pretty darn close). Apple is excellent at selling things that are similar to other company's products and I'll never doubt their selling power.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]AAPL_GOOD_GUYS[/nom]Nice! Google had to steal Apple's intellectual property and pawn it off as its own in order to compete! Oh, and Oracle's, too!Google cannot compete on its own and has to shamelessly steal from everyone. Really pathetic.Go Apple! Go good guys! Keep suing these clowns until they quit stealing![/citation]
You're talking like Apple never stole anything. You know, like the GUI or the Dock.