You can repeat and repeat until you are blue in the face, Joe, but you are still wrong. Try putting the word "modern" in there and Apple did invent the "modern touch screen smartphone"... or did you not notice the italics I placed on that word?
No one else combined the features and ease of use that the iPhone has, and so far, no one has found that combination that equals it. Otherwise why are all the other makers scrambling to make "iPhone killers" and failing?
What smartphone do you think pre-dates the iPhone that meets the criteria?