A smartphone is a mobile phone that works as a computer but is small enough to fit in a user's hand.
Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla first developed the idea for smartphone technology. He conceptualized the first integration of data signals with telephony in 1909.
IBM introduced in the mid 1990s a phone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps. The Simon Personal Communicator was made available to consumers on August 16, 1994.
Although the term "smartphone" was not coined until 1997, because of Simon's features and capabilities, it can be referred to as the first smartphone.
In 1999, the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo released the first smartphones to achieve mass adoption within a country. By the end of 2001, NTT DoCoMo had accumulated an estimated 40 million subscribers. They later lost their dominant position in the market in the face of the rise of 3G and new phones with advanced wireless network capabilities.
The first BlackBerry smartphone was released in 2002. It supported push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services.
At its peak in September 2013, there were 85 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. However, BlackBerry's high position in the smartphone market later declined due to the success of the Android and iOS platforms.
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPhone on June 29, 2007. The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and made Apple one of the world's most valuable publicly traded companies.
Global smartphone sales surpassed the sales figures for feature phones in early 2013.
In February 2013, China became the world's biggest user of smartphones, bumping the U.S. out of the No. 1 spot.
"Smartphone zombies" have been reported as a significant safety hazard likely to cause accidents. To manage these hazards, cities such as Chongqing and Antwerp introduced special lanes for smartphone users in 2014 and 2015.
Android is the most popular mobile operating system. According to Google, over 1.3 million Android smartphones are sold every day.
Globally, there were 3.6 billion active smartphones in use in June 2018 according to a Newzoo report. Samsung leads the pack in global smartphone market share with over 27 percent command versus second place Apple at 24 percent, Chinese manufacturers Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Vivo came in at #3, #4, #5, and #6, respectively.
The average person glances at their smartphone 150 times a day.
Today's average smartphone has more computing power than the first space shuttle ever produced.
The technology behind smartphones relies on up to 250,000 separate patents.
Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla first developed the idea for smartphone technology. He conceptualized the first integration of data signals with telephony in 1909.
IBM introduced in the mid 1990s a phone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps. The Simon Personal Communicator was made available to consumers on August 16, 1994.
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| IBM Simon and charging base (1994 |
Although the term "smartphone" was not coined until 1997, because of Simon's features and capabilities, it can be referred to as the first smartphone.
In 1999, the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo released the first smartphones to achieve mass adoption within a country. By the end of 2001, NTT DoCoMo had accumulated an estimated 40 million subscribers. They later lost their dominant position in the market in the face of the rise of 3G and new phones with advanced wireless network capabilities.
The first BlackBerry smartphone was released in 2002. It supported push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services.
At its peak in September 2013, there were 85 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. However, BlackBerry's high position in the smartphone market later declined due to the success of the Android and iOS platforms.
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Apple Inc. released the first generation iPhone on June 29, 2007. The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and made Apple one of the world's most valuable publicly traded companies.
Global smartphone sales surpassed the sales figures for feature phones in early 2013.
In February 2013, China became the world's biggest user of smartphones, bumping the U.S. out of the No. 1 spot.
"Smartphone zombies" have been reported as a significant safety hazard likely to cause accidents. To manage these hazards, cities such as Chongqing and Antwerp introduced special lanes for smartphone users in 2014 and 2015.
Android is the most popular mobile operating system. According to Google, over 1.3 million Android smartphones are sold every day.
Globally, there were 3.6 billion active smartphones in use in June 2018 according to a Newzoo report. Samsung leads the pack in global smartphone market share with over 27 percent command versus second place Apple at 24 percent, Chinese manufacturers Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Vivo came in at #3, #4, #5, and #6, respectively.
The average person glances at their smartphone 150 times a day.
Today's average smartphone has more computing power than the first space shuttle ever produced.
The technology behind smartphones relies on up to 250,000 separate patents.
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