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This was possibly the world's first smartphone. It was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine, and PDA all rolled into one. It included a calendar, address book, clock, calculator, notepad, email, and a touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard. [46] The IBM Simon had a stylus, used to tap the touch screen.
It paved the way for the ones of today by introducing touch screens to phones. "Buxton Collection Sampler" (PDF). CHI 2011. ACM SIGCHI. 2011. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2013 IBM / Bell South Simon Smartphone: First shown in 1993, this was the world's first so-called 'smart phone'.
The Nokia 9210 Communicator (June 2001), [24] the first phone running Symbian (Release 6) with Nokia's Series 80 platform (v1.0). This was the first Symbian phone platform allowing the installation of additional applications. Like the Nokia 9000 Communicator, it is a large clamshell device with a full physical QWERTY keyboard inside.
The Nokia 7710 is a mobile phone developed by Nokia and announced on 2 November 2004. [1] It was the first Nokia device with a touchscreen (4 years ahead of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic), and first Nokia branded device with 2:1 aspect ratio display (14 years ahead of Nokia 7 Plus). [2] [3] The 7710 is based on the Nokia 7700 which was never released.
The resulting resistive technology touch screen was first shown on the World's Fair at Knoxville in 1982. [20] 1982 MULTI-TOUCH CAMERA - Multi-touch technology began in 1982, when the University of Toronto's Input Research Group developed the first human-input multi-touch system, using a frosted-glass panel with a camera placed behind the glass.
The device was an immediate success at the show and Canova found himself on the front of the money section of USA Today, pictured holding the phone. It was released under the name Simon in August 1994 [ 2 ] and patented by Canova and other team members in 1995 with a priority date of 13 November 1992. [ 3 ]
The iPhone's screen is a 320×480-resolution LCD screen at 163 ppi that measures about 3.5 inches diagonally, much bigger than most other phones at the time, and the iPhone was the first mobile phone with multi-touch technology. The rear camera on the iPhone has a resolution of 2 megapixels and also features geotagging. The iPhone has four ...
The Samsung Behold SGH-T919 is a touch-screen, 3G candybar-style smartphone introduced by Samsung late in 2008. The Behold is one of the first Samsung mobile phones released to have a touch-screen along with the Samsung Omnia, the Samsung Instinct, the Samsung Eternity, and the Samsung Tocco. The Behold is the "American" release of Samsung ...