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IBM created a unique touch-screen user interface for Simon; no DOS prompt existed. [1] This user interface software layer for Simon was known as the Navigator. [26] The Simon could be upgraded to run third party applications either by inserting a PCMCIA card or by downloading an application to the phone's internal memory. [citation needed]
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.
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 first phone of any kind with a large capacitive touchscreen was the LG Prada, announced by LG in December 2006. [37] This was a fashionable feature phone created in collaboration with Italian luxury designer Prada with a 3" 240 x 400 pixel screen, a 2-Megapixel digital camera with 144p video recording ability, an LED flash , and a miniature ...
1993 FIRST RESISTIVE TOUCHSCREEN PHONE - IBM released the IBM Simon, which is the first touchscreen phone. EARLY 90s ABANDONED GAME CONTROLLER - An early attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was Sega 's intended successor to the Game Gear , though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive ...
1915: The first U.S. coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, is ceremonially inaugurated by A.G. Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas Augustus Watson in San Francisco, California. 1927: The first transatlantic phone call is made, from the United States to the United Kingdom. [30]
1980: W.C. Black and David A. Hodges develop the silicon-gate CMOS (complementary MOS) pulse-code modulation (PCM) codec-filter chip, [44] which has since been the industry standard for digital telephony, [44] [46] widely used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) as well as cordless telephones and cell phones. [46] 1981: The world's ...
The Mobira Cityman 150, Nokia's NMT-900 mobile phone from 1989 (left), compared to the Nokia 1100, a GSM phone from 2003. [19] [20] In 1979, Nokia and Salora established a joint venture, "Mobira Oy". [21] Mobira developed mobile phones for the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) network, called the "1G" and was the first fully automatic cellular ...