The Very First Smartphone Smartphone - a cellular phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications. 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. The Simon Personal Communicator came with the ability to: E-mail Fax Call Use a Calendar Address book Calculator Use a stylus on the touch screen Take notes Frank Canova was the lead architect for IBM’s Simon Personal Communicator and is the inventor of the smartphone. The idea of the Simon Personal Communicator was to combine a mobile phone and a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).

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