Did you know: the first smartphone turns 21

Did you know: the first smartphone turns 21:

Did you know that it’s been 21 years since the launch of what’s arguably considered to be the first ever smartphone?

The IBM Simon launched on August 16th of 1994, but it was a long way coming, as the phone was originally introduced way back in early 1992 at the COMDEX show in Las Vegas (later to be succeeded by CES).

A true 'personal communicator'The term smartphone was not widely used at the time, and the IBM Simon arrived as a ‘personal communicator’, but within a year the term smartphone appeared more widely, and it was retrospectively applied to the ...