A trip down touchscreen phone history. LG Prada was the first touchscreen phone in ~2006 even before the iPhone. I bought the LG Prada phone back then before the iPhone came out less than a year later. People commonly asked me how it works without buttons and how can it be a phone and not just a personal planner. So I would say imagine taking your personal planner device and combining with a phone. The question was usually “why”?
They screwed up their marketing by pairing with PRADA and making it expensive for the few, instead of making it competitively priced.
It was just too expensive for mass market at US$850 at a time when we still using cheap push button phones like Nokia, etc.
I remember thinking that iPhone just copied LG when the iPhone first came out.
