It may have been hyperbole for Steve Jobs to say the iPhone is 5 years
ahead of anything out there.

It may be 5 years ahead of Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sanyo or
Microsoft, but there is a phone out there thats maybe only 2 years
behind.

http://www.dynamism.com/n908/specs.shtml

Of course Steve did mention Apple has applied for over 200 patents on
the iPhone:, the hardware, the software and the User Inrerface.