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I was shocked to see "text messaging" and "smartphone" as words introduced in the 80's. I would have thought those were 90's words at least (for "smartphone" i

• jaredsohn 13y ago
  via some wikipedia research on "smart phone": The first smartphone (available in 1994) was the Simon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon), although the term was coined a little later. It could send and receive faxes, e-mails and cellular pages through its touch screen display and included many applications such as address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards. It had exactly one third-party app (which cost $3K). :)