The first smartphone is called Simon; designed by IBM in 1992 and exhibited as a concept product that year on COMDEX, a computer exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada. The smartphone was marketed to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Not only is it a mobile phone, the smartphone also has a calendar, telephone book, world clock, place of recording, e-mail, the ability to send and receive faxes and games. These sophisticated phones do not have buttons. Instead the users use the touch screen to select a telephone number with a finger or make a fax and memo with a stylus stick. Text is entered with a unique "predictive" keyboard on the screen. For today's standards, Simon is a low-level product, but its features at the time were very sophisticated.
Nokia Communicator was Nokia's first smart phone, starting with the Nokia 9000, in 1996. Smartphones similar to this unique hand computer were the result of a successful and expensive merger of PDA models made by Haris by selling Nokia phones at that time. The Nokia 9210 is the first color sailing communicator and is also a true smart phone that uses an operating system. 9500 Communicators become the first camera and WiFi communicators. 9300 Communicators have changes in a smaller form and the latest E90 communicator includes GPS. Although the Nokia 9210 can be argued as the first true smartphone with an operating system, Nokia still calls it a communicator.
Nokia Communicator was Nokia's first smart phone, starting with the Nokia 9000, in 1996. Smartphones similar to this unique hand computer were the result of a successful and expensive merger of PDA models made by Haris by selling Nokia phones at that time. The Nokia 9210 is the first color sailing communicator and is also a true smart phone that uses an operating system. 9500 Communicators become the first camera and WiFi communicators. 9300 Communicators have changes in a smaller form and the latest E90 communicator includes GPS. Although the Nokia 9210 can be argued as the first true smartphone with an operating system, Nokia still calls it a communicator.
The Ericsson R380 was previously sold as a 'smartphone' but cannot run third-party applications.
In October 2001, Handspring released the Palm OS Treo smartphone, with a full keyboard combined with wireless network roaming, e-mail, calendars, and name list control, with third-party applications that can be downloaded or synchronized with a computer.
In 2002, RIM released the first BlackBerry which was the first smartphone with optimal use of wireless email and its users have reached 8 million (as of June 2007), three quarters of its users are in South America.
Handspring presents smart phones that are popular in the US market by joining the Palm OS Visor-based PDA with a GSM telephone network, VisorPhone. In 2002, Handspring sold an integrated smart phone called Treo; this company joined because the sale of PDAs had begun to die, but Treo smart phones quickly became popular as PDA-featured phones. In the same year, Microsoft announced the Windows CE OS computer bag was named "Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002".
In 2005 Nokia published the N-series 3G smart phones which were sold not as mobile phones but as multimedia computers.
Android, OS for smart phones released in 2008. Android is supported by Google, along with other leading hardware and software entrepreneurs such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Motorola and eBay, which later formed the Open Handset Alliance.
The first phone to use Android OS is HTC Dream, a keluran brand from T-Mobile as G1. Features a full telephone, a full touch screen, a QWERTY keyboard, and trackballs to navigate web pages. Software matches Google applications, such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, as well as Google's Chrome Lite. Third-party applications are also available through the Android Market, some are free or for a fee.
In July 2008 Apple introduced the App Store with a free application and for a fee. App stores can deliver smartphone applications developed by third parties directly from an iPhone or iPod Touch with WiFi or cellular networks without using a computer to download. The App Store has been a success for Apple and in June 2009 there were more than 50,000 applications available. App store through one million download applications on April 23, 2009.
Following the popularity of the App Store from Apple, many made their own application store. Palm, Microsoft and Nokia have announced Apple-like application stores. RIM also recently created an application store, BlackBerry App World.
