......But the product itself does not appear to innovate in any way short of the concept of having a very large screen and absolutely no buttons.
Robkz, with all due respect, may I point out the following innovations in addition to the two innovations you pointed out:
Innovation #3 - iPhone is first cell device in history to introduce
"visual voicemail."
Innovation #4 - iPhone is first cell device in history to introduce
multi-touch on a touchscreen aka "point and pinch touchscreen."
Innovation #5 - iPhone is first cell device in history to introduce a
full scale browser which displays a full page (not a scaled down wap page).
Innovation #6 - iPhone is first cell device in history to employ
widgets as applications.
Innovation #7 - iPhone is first cell device implement
3 sensors. A proximity sensors to protect the phone while you are talking by determining how close your face is to the phone. A sensor for ambient light and a sensor that determines when the phone is view either landscape or portrait. Frankly, I can't think of another phone that uses
sensors at all, but perhaps you can. That alone would be Innovation #8.
How about some non-innovations that we Treo users would love to have?
1) WIFI
2) 4 or 8 Gigabytes Memory
3) iPod (and cover flow technology to view our music)
4) MacOS X (i.e. multi-threaded/multi-tasking operating system)
5) Ability to browse internet while talking on the phone (really important to me on a personal level)
6) Better volume on calls
7) Ability to sync a Macintosh or PC iTunes, Address book and files