The History of the Smartphone
The smartphone is one of the world's most innovative creations, and is predicted to reach 2.9 billion users in 2019. The first smartphone ever created is reported to be IBM's Simon Personal Communicator, released in 1994. On this device, one could write emails, text, send faxes, check one's calendar and even sketch on the screen with a stylus. In the years 2001, the next big breakthrough in smartphone technology was unveiled, the Blackberry handheld device, with calling capacity, calendar planning, texting, emailing etc. Blackberry continued to define the cellular industry by introducing the first handheld smartphone device to have a colored display, the Blackberry 7210. What happened following the the year of 2007 changed the way smartphones were viewed forever, with Steve Jobs' introduction of the very first Iphone. The Iphone was revolutionary in the sense that it had touch screen capabilities instead of conventional physical keypads, and the ability to surf the web
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