News : World's first 'smartphone' celebrates 20 years

[Anonymous]

Headline : Worlds first Smartphone celebrates 20 years.

"Never judge a phone by its cover. This chunky, black box was in fact the world's first 'smartphone'.

The IBM Simon went on sale to the public on 16 August 1994 and combined mobile phone technology with a wide range of computing features."

My thoughts :

C'mon guys and gals what was your first mobile phone you owned... can some of you remember that far back >  

Mine looked like a old style handset with curly wire attached to a car battery.

a bit like this :

and then this :

The first Smartphone i owned was the iPhone 4

Source : BBC News.

Read more here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28802053

[aldaweb]

My first mobile was this one, before that I had a BT Charge Card.

Barclaycard BC2 by Alcatel on BT Cellnet which took a full size SIM

(Credit card sized)

My first Smartphone was the XDA Orbit

It was bundled with Copilot Sat-Nav and I already had many

Programs from my Toshiba PDA that ran on it.

(They weren't calls apps yet :smileywink:)

[MI5]

An old thread here with a few contributions in it....
http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Off-topic/what-was-peoples-first-mobile-phone/m-p/258613/highlight/true...

[Anonymous]

It wasn't easy to remember, this was my first mobile phone:

And 1st smartphone was a BB