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Touchscreen phones are nothing new, and HTC has been selling them for a lot longer than Apple's (AAPL) been in the mobile business. But it's not hard to tell exactly where the company got its inspiration for the Touch Diamond -- the user interface, running on top of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile, looks especially iPhone-like. (The phone itself looks more like a Zune though, no?)

Either way, that's okay! Why? The first HTC Touch sold more than 3 million units in its first 11 months, or more than half as many iPhones as Apple has sold. And that's a keeper, considering it wasn't nearly as sexy as the iPhone -- or the new Diamond -- and didn't have any of Apple's brand cach or marketing push.

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