Seriously, people griping about it being an iPhone knock off, so what? ALL these products evolved from something earlier... Palm begat Pocket PC begat Newton begat Treo begat WinMob begat iPhone ad infinitum. (yeah and a couple of those might be in the wrong order... I leave that up to anal crowd to dissect).
Hell, if Palm (or Sony's Clie division) was smart about 3 years ago and listened to the fan base at 1src etc., it would have made everything about the iPhone's innovation a moot point except multi-touch/rotate. I'm not the only one who wanted a phone crammed into a Palm TX or Sony TH55 back in 2004-2005. When I switched to WinMob a couple of years ago, one of the first things I did was a 3rd party launcher that has nice big icons like the iPhone (though it didn't exist in the day, so it was to simulate the Palm Launcher).
The point is, Apple helped take some of the fugly out of the smartphone market and added some great new concepts, but they didn't invent it. In some cases, they dumbed it down.
If a so-called knock off maker wants to make a WinMob device that looks more iPhone sexy, why not? Knock off artists have been doing this since the Levi jeans rush in mother Russia. Well before the iPhone came out I had a 3rd party launcher on my HTC Wizard that made it's start screen look a lot LIKE what I thought Palm's Launch should be (coincidentally, a lot like the iPhone).
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Seriously, people griping about it being an iPhone knock off, so what? ALL these products evolved from something earlier... Palm begat Pocket PC begat Newton begat Treo begat WinMob begat iPhone ad infinitum. (yeah and a couple of those might be in the wrong order... I leave that up to anal crowd to dissect).
Hell, if Palm (or Sony's Clie division) was smart about 3 years ago and listened to the fan base at 1src etc., it would have made everything about the iPhone's innovation a moot point except multi-touch/rotate. I'm not the only one who wanted a phone crammed into a Palm TX or Sony TH55 back in 2004-2005. When I switched to WinMob a couple of years ago, one of the first things I did was a 3rd party launcher that has nice big icons like the iPhone (though it didn't exist in the day, so it was to simulate the Palm Launcher).
The point is, Apple helped take some of the fugly out of the smartphone market and added some great new concepts, but they didn't invent it. In some cases, they dumbed it down.
If a so-called knock off maker wants to make a WinMob device that looks more iPhone sexy, why not? Knock off artists have been doing this since the Levi jeans rush in mother Russia. Well before the iPhone came out I had a 3rd party launcher on my HTC Wizard that made it's start screen look a lot LIKE what I thought Palm's Launch should be (coincidentally, a lot like the iPhone).