Like Germany's aerial assault on England in World War II, Apple's media campaign for the iPhone was a blitzkrieg. A revolution, it was to be the first mobile phone/handheld computer that operated solely by touch-interface; only it wasn't the first. Weeks before the iPhone's release, HTC quietly launched their Touch mobile phone.
<A HREF="http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200707/00001978001.html">Read this Computing Unplugged article.</A>