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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).
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.
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]
The first commercially available touchscreen phone was a brick phone, the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, released in 1994. [9] The success of the iPhone , which was released by Apple in 2007, is considered by some to be largely responsible for the influence and achievement of this design as it is currently conceived.
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 ...
The Trium Mondo is an early touchscreen smartphone designed and marketed by Trium, a Mitsubishi subsidiary, which runs the Windows Pocket PC 2000 operating system.. The product was originally announced on January 10, 2000, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, [1] and was released in the UK in August 2001. [2]
The BlackBerry Storm is a touchscreen smartphone developed by Research In Motion. A part of the BlackBerry 9500 series of phones, [6] it was RIM's first touchscreen device, and its first without a physical keyboard. It featured a touchscreen that responded like a button via SurePress, Research In Motion's haptic feedback technology.