aww, what a pity. I guess we can at least hope it comes preloaded with her phone number

Well, you are right in saying that this does look like an iphone, but lots of cell phones do these days. The industry is moving to black and silver for all their color designs.

look on the bright side:

It can do much more than the iphone does, simply because it’s not controlled by a company (apple) that does not like to allow people to create their own programs to run on their pda’s. The windows platform at least lets you download third party programs easily and also be able to process word documents or excel — something that iphones will never be able to do.

And in addition, the screen is touch sensitive; you can use the stylus (you called it a pencil) or your fingers to input data. Any physical contact strong enough to be detected will be detected.