[irq]

> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.

It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.

[tim333]

I had an Nokia N95 which was basically a smartphone and came out a year before the iPhone. And Wikipedia says

>it became a huge sales success for Nokia ... It managed to outsell rivals such as LG Viewty and iPhone.

However the iPhone got better.