The iPhone is nothing new, PDAs could do much of that stuff before 2001, and:
The iPhone is just another generation of "smartphone," and far from being the first to offer integrated GPS and videochat, etc.
I have to also agree, the iPhone didn't offer anything new hardware wise in 2007, all it did was refine the parts and bring it all together with a very slick user interface... it was really the interface that was the problem with previous generations of Smart phones.
If you think Bouma was being clever... all he was really saying, was that at some undefined point in the future Mobile phones would be comparable to the (then) current generation of desktops... That is basically a no brainer... what he didn't predict was, what actually is innovative, and that is the iPhone's touch interface... he was stuck (as everyone else was) on the idea of a stylus
