It's always a tricky thing to pinpoint when great tech first came this way. Sometimes, we're not even sure if it was great tech when it makes a splash so that m

It's always a tricky thing to pinpoint when great tech first came this way. Sometimes, we're not even sure if it was great tech when it makes a splash so that may be part of the reason. I was able to find this that corroborates with BW on the Simon : http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/18/20-years-ago-the-first-smartphone-was-developed-whats-next-for-mobility/ http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/18/20-years-ago-the-first-sm... If you're ignoring the "phone" bit of "Smartphone", it's basically a PDA first. So the first PDA would be the Organizer by Psion : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser If you want to mix PDA and phone proper, the first time that happened was with the Nokia 9000 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator