According to researcher, Philip Solis, an analyst for ABI Research, Apple's upcoming iPhone is NOT a Smartphone because it limits 3rd party software by being a closed system.
"Therefore, we must conclude at this point that, based on our current definition, the iPhone is not a smart phone; it's a very high-end feature phone... Feature phones have third-party applications too, but these are relatively weak and limited to applications that work with the middleware such as Java and Brew."
Read more at InformationWeek.
