Originally Posted By: wfaulk
So the fact that it can do something no other camera phone can do isn't relevant, but the user interface to it is?

Quite a few phones have variable focus, including the G1 and N95. It looks like one of the earliest phones to have it was the mova P505iS, released in late 2003. How they handled the focus is another question, and I'm not sure if any other phone has done the tap to focus.