Yes please compare apples to apples. Claiming that iPhone did not support something for only a year is BS because thats how it launched. what about multi-tasking? Oh iPhone didn't support that for a couple of years only.
GRANTED that iPhone is first-to-market and actually created the market, so they get the brownie points because there was nothing even close available. Now if you want to compete with the iPhone to any extent you MUST compete with the iPhone of today, not the iPhone of 1G.
False
> "iPhone only supports email attachments, and does not support attachments to other media (like MMS)"
True for a year (2 years with AT&T)
> "The handset does not store photos or videos. Instead, every photo and video taken on the iPhone is uploaded to Microsoft's server"
False
> "There is no photo editing software for the 2007 iPhone."
Was only true for a year
> "iPhone does not currently support playing video from sites such as YouTube or Hulu"
False, iPhone always supported YouTube; Hulu is a special case due to DRM & their chosen technology stack and politics
> "iPhone has no app store and no 3rd party apps can be installed on iPhone."
Was only true for a year — but from the get-go, the iPhone supported rich mobile Web apps, even allowing them to be installed to the home screen
> "the iPhone web browser does not support Flash web applications, and there are no games for the 2007 iPhone."
True and false (though no non-web-stack games were possible for a year)
> "iPhone has no calendar or appointment application, nor any ability to sync with Outlook calendar or Google Calendar"
False
> "iPhone is unable to Instant Message (IM), or use any IM client"
False if you include browser-based chat (or AIM thru SMS)
> "There is no spelling correction or predictive text input on the iPhone."
False since day 1
> "There are no MicroSD or memory expansion slots."
True, though it offered gigabytes of storage, much more than (at list virtually) any other phone in 2007
> "iPhone will not sync or transfer contact lists from some non-Microsoft services (eg Gmail and Yahoo! Mail)"
False, you could easily import, and often sync, any contacts that you could possibly export as CSV or vCard (through Address Book or Outlook)
"Almost all" is a bit of a stretch, teaspoon; I count just under 50%.