Astoundingly it has more than one Linux distro that can run on it with some level of modernity, which is where he’s able to make the claim about the iPhone being inferior. Its Windows CE OS wasn’t quite the desktop Windows of the day, but it was close enough to be appealing for the ’90s exec who had everything. The HP was something of a turn-of-the-millennium object of desire, being a palmtop computer with a half-decent keyboard a 640×240 pixel TFT display, and 32 MB of RAM alongside its 206 MHz Intel StrongARM CPU. His HP Journada 720 can host a development environment, while the iPhone can’t. He makes the bold claim that it can do things the iPhone can’t, and while the two devices are in no way comparable he’s right on one point. The fancier ones blurred the line between PDA and laptop and were the forerunner devices to netbooks, and it’s one of these that is putting through its paces. There are many contenders to the crown of first smartphone, but in that discussion it’s often forgotten that the first generally available such devices weren’t phones at all, but PDAs, or Personal Digital Assistants. Most of us probably now have a smartphone, an extremely capable pocket computer - even if sometimes its abilities are disguised a little by its manufacturer.