[DonsDiscountGas]

They absolutely were not first to the smart phone, that was blackberry. It's just that blackberry sucked. They were first to PC but I don't think they were first to laptop.

[paxys]

Sure you can go back well before blackberry to find even earlier versions of the smartphone but the type we all use today was introduced by Apple.

[SchemaLoad]

They just removed the physical keyboard. Pretty much everything else about a modern phone was either added in later years or already existed. The first iphone was extremely basic.