[jinxednuance]

Hey folks,

I know it happened a while ago in a key note speech. I completely forgot who said it, but I think it was Lazaridis that said RIM invented the smartphone. Can someone confirm please if it was him or someone else?

Would appreciate it!

[Reed McLay]

In 1994, IBM and BellSouth introduced a combination phone and PDA called the Simon Personal Communicator. Often touted as the first smartphone, ...

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I can find no available evidence that it was referred to as a "Smartphone", at that time.

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[Mr One 2]

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[Matrix Leader]

correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the first smart phone was the Nokia 6330




I had this phone when it was released and it was the first Nokia phone to offer a 1.3 Megapixel camera when no other phones had a megapixel camera to start with. And it offered 3G speeds and video calling support.

[Mr One 2]

correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the first smart phone was the Nokia 6330




I had this phone when it was released and it was the first Nokia phone to offer a 1.3 Megapixel camera when no other phones had a megapixel camera to start with. And it offered 3G speeds and video calling support.

I was just reading up on this and some say it was a Microsoft phone called Simon and other say the nokia 9000. Also Jim balsillie from rim said they "practically" invented the smartphone.

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[Reed McLay]

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The Nokia 6630 is Nokia's first 3G phone based on Symbian OS 8.0a. ...
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[BigBadWulf]

It was the IBM Simon that was debut in 1992, and the Nokia Communicator 9000, that started production on 1996. The word smartphone is anybody's guess, but my money is on a teenager with thick rimmed glasses.

[jinxednuance]

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That's what I was looking, thank you.