Samsung Galaxy S5 Impressions and experiences I've been a long time iPhone user, from the iPhone 2G , to the 3GS, 4 and then the 5, I've been almost exclusively using iPhones for the past several years. For nearly all of this time an iPhone has been my only Apple product. It's difficult to think back to a time before the iPhone. Smart phones had resistive touch screens, you had to push hard and use a stylus to get reasonable touch precision. PDAs typically didn't have Internet connectivity and data plans from cell carriers were expensive. Voicemail was something you dialed in to check. Apple's iPhone changed the definition of what it meant to be a smartphone. This was so disruptive that it basically drove Blackberry, Nokia, Ericsson and Sony out of the smart phone business. I've been quite happy with the iPhone. It's simple, reliable and relatively extendable via apps. Apple does restrict what you can do to the iPhone. You won't have full co