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psionandy psionandy
 
M$1.28 October 30, 2009 10:27 AM

What was the first device to be called a smartphone (or smart phone) at the time when it was launched??

Please note, I'm not looking for the first device that we would call the smartphone now.... I'm more interested in when the term smartphones was coined and what device it was first attatched to.

(and to get the best answer you're going to have to provide a good source)
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anilarora anilarora
 
October 30, 2009 10:50 AM
wiki says
"Very first smart phone was called SIMON . and its showed by IBM in 1992 as a concept phone . later it was released and sold to public by BELLSOUTH in 1993". also called as SMART SIMON

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#History


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psionandy psionandy
 
October 30, 2009 10:52 AM
Thats exactly the answer that i'm NOT looking for. There's no evidence in your answer (or link) that it was called a smartphone when it was launched... Nothing in the wikipedia article shows that it was called a smartphone in 1992. Only that we refer to it now as the first smartphone.

If you can find a decent source that shows it was described as a smartphone at the time it was launched then I'll change my vote to helpful and you're in with a chance of the best answer

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anilarora anilarora
 
October 30, 2009 11:42 AM
wiki says "There is no industry standard definition of a smartphone " . however i got what you want to convey .According to one source Its palm Inc which coined the term SMART PHONE in 2000 to thier PDA with voice capability. probably some model in palm v siries .
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161376/cell_phone_smartphone_whats_the_difference.html

http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=339495

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anilarora anilarora
 
October 30, 2009 11:47 AM
You can tip that dollar to some one who gives satisfactory answer to this question . anyways , nice question .

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psionandy psionandy
 
October 30, 2009 12:06 PM
Thanks for that...

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jacobrossk... jacobrossk...
 
November 06, 2009 06:23 AM
Hi PsionAndy,

As what I know Palm was the inventor of smartphones.

Anyway, smart or not smartphones are getting more smarter with online services companies offer like virtual PBX phone system, and fax service. Imagine smartphones sending/receiving fax.

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psionandy psionandy
 
November 06, 2009 12:09 PM
If you can supply a date reference that would be useful.. and can you remove the spam like link from your answer, its not relevant to the question and its not helpful..

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