First phone with WiFi... what ?

Just recapping some podcasts from around the expo and found Your Mac Life with David Pogue, where he states that everyone is going gaga for the iPhone (true) because it's the first phone with WiFi, and he gos on to ground this conspiracy that the networks wouldn't allow it and it's because people would use skype not network minutes yada yada yada.

I just want to point out, albeit a month late, that the iPhone is not and won't be the first phone with WiFi, anyone familiar with O2 in the UK and their XDA model of handset PDAs know that these had GSM Sims for network usage and inbuilt WiFi and tri-band so it worked in the states.

When I owned one the only reason I HATED it was because of Windows CE. It was awful. Truly, the number of times I hung up on my boss by hitting the touch screen with my cheek (Hence my admiration for the iPhone sensor to stop that happening. The number of times I deafened myself because it was confused about speakers and volumes.

Rant over, quite chuffed I got to correct Mr. Pogue, slightly late sorry.

Update
There I was reading some rather, very, dull material on obstacle limitation surfaces in the EU and "ding" goes Mail.app. Both Growl and Notification provide previews of my new missive. I notice it's a comment on the blog, cynically I assume it's more comment spam (despite that appearing to have dropped off since I upgraded to the new blogger, I smell a rat). Anyway, I notice what appears to be intelligent text, ie a real comment. Upon reading it, I notice a significant amount of references to the first person. Then the signature at the end bowls me over to point of having to get some water. "--Pogue" I'm 1) Honored I showed up on his radar to comment 2) Hoping for a new subscriber 3) AMAZED at how dash quickly he found this, merely hours after my post.

Enough of this fawning. Back to disagreeing with the cove. David, Dave or Pogue as his friends call him ? Comments imply that he wouldn't say that the XDA in question (now discontinued and surpassed) is a phone in his definition and mentions "shirt-pocketable" as part of said definition. My shirt / suit breast pocket was exactly where I used to keep the XDA I suffered. Weigh it up for yourself though...
iPhone: 115x61x11.6mm
XDA: 130x69x19.9
Whilst certainly bigger, and quite a bit thicker (one of the things I look forward to on the iPhone is the slimmer form factor) it is easily within the dimensions of what I would call a smart phone.

None of this attempting to get out of it on a technicality with reference to cellular palmtops will do either. iPhone vs XDA = damned similar functions. Phone calls are a big telephone give away, Internet and e-mail and some contact bits and bobs. I'll trade you editing Excel documents for your google maps and raise you a Java maps program I had on a smart phone once.

Maybe it's this last little caveat "in the U.S." Nope not buying that either, e-bay easily offers me XDAs for sale Stateside. Incase that doesn't float your boat, I'll leave you with a review for the Siemens SX66 from 2005.
There is a sentence in the second paragraph that ends "sold here by importers." Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

To confirm I enjoy Mr. Pogue's appearances and I am well looking forward to the iPhone and will investigate carriers dependent which side of the Atlantic I'm on.

Finally, David, I hope our exchange is seen as good natured, and I'm honored once again to have such a learned readership.