Multiplexer

Part of the problems is, they have not been anti-genocide persons. The date of demonstration might give a hint what they have been celebrating instead.
An actual anti-genocide demo a few days later would not have been forbidden in the first place and also would have had a positive effect.
This demonstration as it was organized and happened on the other hand was a real field day for right-wing media and significantly fueled anti-palestinian ressentiments.
I hate that.

So if this is the case, why is the video cut in such a selective way?
And why is she tackled down by half a dozen policemen afterwards?
I read the reports on the event. They let the majority of the people just go home after some time. With the exception of those that commited criminal offenses. Like attacking policemen.
We just don't know, because a crucial part of the video is missing.
Find me the rest and I will happily personnaly alert the state attorney to this incident.
But in this form, the evidence just is too thin.
So, anyone: Give me more! I want the raw data!

Well, actually there is in a self-defense scenario.
So the question of the thread starter is legit: what happened in the seconds before the punch?
Video cutting looks very selective to me. Ragebait instead of solid police violence documentation one could work with...

Anyone has a link to a more complete version of this video?

The capacitive touchscreen alone was definitely something special.

For sure. Although l think the actual remarkable point is how it had been utilized.

There are reasons these were not in wide use yet. I remember discussing using a capacitive touchscreen for a project in 2004 already. We settled for a resistive one, as the effort to adept the existing SW to a capacitive one would have been too great.
Apple didn't have this technical debt and could design its stuff from the ground up to fit the new input method. And it did that exceptionally well, which is part of the reason for its success.

But the means of input isn't what made a smartphone smart.
So, coming back to the original premise, I could even still have a 25 year old smartphone package, if I e.g. had owned a Siemens SX45 back then (I had a SL45i, which also was almost, but in reality not quite, a smartphone)

No, it also supportedl standard html. And not just in theory, I routinely visited such pages with the phone. Limiting factor was rather the screen size here, sometimes leading to strangely rendered pages. But there already existed smartphones with bigger screens, eg. the Nokia communicators, which didn't have that specific issue.

Yes, the IPhone revolutionized the market, especially because it turned the old distribution models upside-down (which the established manufacturers were in no position to do).

But purely from a technical standpoint it was nothing completely special. Some things were better, some things worse than for other phones.

The symbian phones were typically much better from the classical technical standpoint.
Windows CE devices had superior versatility.
Blackberry was optimized for business integration.
But all high-end devices were "smartphones" at that stage.

No full Internet access, extremely limited selection of applications solely provided by the vendor

That's not true. Full internet access, also for installed apps and unusual protocols, and any app supporting the right Java features could be installed (I had some OSS ones and even ones out of the competing Nokia store - I think they had a nice calculator app...)

Actually, these points would apply much more to the IPhone 1, as you could only install apps from their store and it had crippled connectivity (vividly remember a friend who had it constantly complaining about the speed because of missing UMTS, among other things).

You are right insofar, as I would not tread it as a smartphone by todays standards.
But neither would l tread the IPhone 1 as one.
And yet both were in 2007.
Standards change... 🤷‍♂️

Siemens EF81.

Feature-wise roughly comparable to the first IPhone.
Internet/Mail/Office stuff, installable apps, multimedia and camera, gaming.

As you already said, smartphones have been around since the late 90s/early 00s, with constantly increasing functionality. Even if people today wouldn't directly recognize them as such, as the typical formfactor has changed during the late 00s.

You are somewhat right, I just looked up the phone I was thinking about, it is from 2006.

As our phones are all inventorized from the start and have barcodes on the back, this is not necessary where l work.
Also, we don't have much employee fluctuation, so phones are typically only returned when they are broken or obsolete to get de-inventorized (via barcode again).

Much easier to send back and no discussions about completeness.
Full refund period over here is 2 weeks, but very customer friendly warranty regulations after that.