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.wikipedi

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). :)