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The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from (lemm.ee)
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[+] -21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I certainly don't take their side... but smartphones DIDN'T exist before the iPhone. Which phone would you say that was? BlackBerry?
Most people think of smartphones as a big touchscreen, and the iPhone was first, being released on June 29 2007, whereas the first Android phone was released over a year later in September 2008.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Mate I own a pre-iphone smart phone. What are you on about?

    If you really wanna go back far enough, the first handheld, portable device which had both phone and computer technologies in one package dates as far back as the mid 90s. Touch screen and all. The term smartphone would first be coined in 1995. Heaps of other touch screen devices that could do phone calls, SMS, and had a suite of apps would come out in later years as PalmOS and later Pocket PC/Windows Mobile came to fruition in the late 90s/early 2000s. The iPhone was just iterating off technology and features already being seen in smartphones at the time, just in a sleeker, smoother, simpler manner with a capacitive touch screen rather than the resistive touch screens of most common devices at the time. Heck, the iPhone wasn't even the first phone with a capacitive touch screen.

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