&gt; Frankly many &quot;dumbphones&quot; could rival iPhone when it launched<p>Did you live through these? I used most of the pre-iPhone Nokia S40 <i>smart</i>phones and owned a few of them, both &quot;consumer&quot; N-series and &quot;professional&quot; E-series. They only rivaled iphones in the checkbox sense: features were technically present on the phone, anything beyond that was missing, the hardware was usually insufficient, the software was garbage on both usability and performances, the overall experience was utterly miserable. After I finally switched from my E70 to a 3G the only thing I wondered is why I hadn&#x27;t switched earlier (answer being I didn&#x27;t want to lose the checkbox of 3G support, never mind that I&#x27;d have had more utility from 2G on an iphone than I did from 3G on an E70).<p>And dumbphones didn&#x27;t come close (dumbphones were what non-corp US users used).