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Smart Phones - the wave of the future!
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I love going back and reading stuff like this. Do you know which company created the first smartphone?
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I don't remember who was first. Handspring & Blackberry were pretty early, but you're really streatching the definition of smart phone with those. HTC had some of the better early PDA phones.
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1995 IBM released the Simon Personal Communicator.
http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-first-smartphone-simon-launched-before-iphone-2015-6
http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-first-smartphone-simon-launched-before-iphone-2015-6
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I had one of the early Simons!
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Funny story it was always smarter than me...I had one of the early Simons!
