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iPhone - Steve Jobs
"[...] a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps [...] iPhone also ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.” -
BlackBerry Smartphone
“[...] two-way pagers, allowing users in the US to message each other. By 2002 the BlackBerry had an integrated mobile phone, 2G data capabilities and Java-powered software to let users send emails and access a basic version of the web while on the go. This was five years before the first iPhone, and it represented a major shift in the way people could work when away from their computers.” -
Librié EBR-1000EP - Sony, Philips and E Ink
“The Sony Libre EBR 1000 featured the first E INK display with a resolution of 800×600 with 167 PPI. It only had 4 gray scales, black and white, instead of the 16 gray scales we have today. It did not have a lighting system and was totally dependent on environmental light to see what was on the screen. There is a tiny qwerty keyboard at the bottom of the display, permitting a limited form of marginalia, as well as a small roller wheel. Two physical page turn keys were on the left side.” -
YouTube - Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen
"YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own videos to share with others. Originally created in 2005, YouTube is now one of the most popular sites on the Web, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of video every month.” -
Android - Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White
“With its pop-up 3.2-inch touchscreen combined with a QWERTY physical keyboard, the phone wasn’t precisely a design marvel [...] It integrated a number of the company’s other products and services. This includes Google Maps, YouTube, and an HTML browser (pre-Chrome) that used Google’s search services. It also had the first version of Android Market.”