Who invented smartphones?

Rob Stothard/Getty People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone. read more

Here on the 20th anniversary of the first smartphone, I thought it appropriate to write about the long revised history of one this cultures most used tools. This funny little device many of use every day, the smartphone, is considered by some to be “my precious”. read more

The term smartphone was not coined until 1997, but Simon had most of the capabilities expected from such a device. Simon was the first phone to incorporate features such as a touchscreen and software applications. read more

Super Smartphones and Mighty Messaging Phones AT&T's New Spring Smartphones The Treo 600 was the first smartphone released by Palm after it acquired device manufacturer Handspring, which itself had been started by Palm's original founders and which had used Palm's operating system as the basis for its Treo devices. read more