Nope. Years. In fact, the first versions of Windows Mobile were the direct descendants of the first versions of Windows that ran on portable devices (Windows CE) and that can be followed back a surprisingly long time. Windows Mobile was available on devices starting in 2000, a full seven years before the iPhone was released. Windows CE (as well as the later Pocket PC variants) began life on pocket organizers and industrial devices in 1996 and even then it did more than the first release of the iPhone (although, in the case of CE, that is a slight stretch of the imagination, it would do apps, but it was mostly used for large firms to build their own specific systems around).

I recall being asked if my trusty HTC Touch Diamond was an iPhone whenever I answered a call out in the world. I'd constantly have to say something like "no, it's better" and then receive a challenge to justify my response as if I had somehow offended the asker (who clearly didn't have an iPhone themselves, otherwise they wouldn't have asked). It wasn't even my first device that could be considered a 'smartphone' by then, I'd had a few Pocket PC's and Windows Mobile devices already, but because they'd just heard about the iPhone in the news, that was the one I should have instead. It always reminded me of a high-school kid that suffered the mis-fortune of being on the same train as a grumpy old sod such as myself (I say, even though I was barely 20 at the time).

He was boasting to his friends that his parents had just bought him the new iPhone (a clear example of the old adage "more money than sense", especially back then). One of the marvellous new features was that he could change the interface to display in French.

"Can your phone do French?" he asked one of his friends (who I'm sure was just thankful to have a phone to begin with – this was a time when social butterflies would routinely have two cheap Nokia bricks to make send cheap txt's to their friends of either Telecom or Vodafone camps).