if you ask people what theythink the very first all touchscreensmartphone was most people wouldprobably say the original iPhone or if they knew a bit more about technology history they might say the LG Prada but it is by no means either of these phones to find the answer we have to look even before the 2000s the story starts in 1971 with fyodor parish giver costs he was the very first person on earth to envision devices that combine telephone communication capabilities and computing not only that but he was the very first to introduce the concepts of intelligence data processing and visual display screens into telephones Theodore issued over 20 patents and created a special transmitter and receiver that was used within his work at the Boeing Company although Theodore was a visionary his inventions never really found its way outside of Boeing so as a result they went largely unrecognized over a decade later in 1984 Motorola shocked the world with the first ever mobile phone the DynaTAC 8000x it was a bulky inefficient thing taking ten hours to charge for a measly 30 minutes of talk time but it was the seed of what is oh so familiar today however it was by no means smart so we gotta ask the question when did the smart actually get into the phone to find out we've got to continue our story and fast forward into 1992 this was a time when primitive PDAs or personal digital assistants we're starting to become hot possessions for some fun context let's take a quick look at AT&T s vision of the future through PDAs or as they called them personal communicators there's a fax machine there's the phone there's a voicemail there's the email the electronic mail system all of that's all fragment and it's not all in one place so if it were all in one place it would be crazy you are a design a system that works for me get something that will climb up that ladder with me I need something that's gonna work here I want to be able to take the things I have at home on the road with me if I had one in my car it would be even better my dream system would integrate voice mail email fax and it would have one maybe two buttons this is incredible everything I need to do my job everything that's on my desk it's right here in one packet now these are the kinds of faxes I like to get no my daughters quite the artist she's really good to have this kind of information go where I go and to have it come up on screen this is great now this is really communicating so when can I get one okay so hold your laughter back then that kind of stuff was revolutionary also around this time it's important to note that laptops themselves were only just barely becoming feasible while other companies were experimenting and looking to find the right combination of communication capabilities IBM already had a prototype in this year at a Comdex computer industry trade show history was very quietly made IBM showed off a small prototype phone that they had bee developing it included PDA features and a large touchscreen in 1994 the phone was refined further and put onto the market with the name the Simon Personal Communicator and you guessed it this was the very first smartphone interestingly enough even though the phone was developed by IBM was actually manufactured by Mitsubishi electronics so what could this phone actually do well in addition to its ability to make and receive phone calls Simon was ableto send and receive faxes emails and included several other apps like an address book calendar appointment scheduler calculator world time clock and a notepad through its touch screen display and stylus it was so advanced that people didn't even know what they were really looking at sales of the IBM Simon was short-lived between August 16th 1994 and was discontinued less than a year later in February of 1995it sold 50,000 units for those of you interested in a few technical fun bits let's check out some specs of the phone it had one megabyte of RAM and flashstorage and a 16 megahertz processor which was actually x86 compatible for those of you wondering x86 is the chip architecture used in Windows PCs ok so how is 16 megahertz when compared to computers of the day well for comparison the pcs of the day were around 20 to 100 megahertz in speed so this phone was actually not that bad it was actually somewhat of a powerhouse mobile computing device of course compared to today's phones with 4 gigabytes of RAM and 8 core processors in the two-and-a-half gigahertz range you can see that things have really come way the IBM Simon today doesn't sound like much but as you can imagine at the time it was an absolutely revolutionary concept so revolutionary that it would take another 13 years until the smartphone industry truly realized once again that a screen that could change to fit your application works better than fixed buttons it's funny how things go so hopefully that enlightened you somewhat and that was just a fun little bit of tech history if you want to 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Before cellphones there were car phones good morning miss McConnell out of the market open in fact the original car phone weighed about 80 pounds in 1947 an engineer at Bell Labs envisioned afuturistic phone network for their car phones a call would bounce uninterrupted between cells of coverage at the time the technology and the infrastructurefor this did not exist but it soon would the car phones quickly became popular despite their limitations only a limited number of people could use the serviceat a time which meant five to ten-year waiting lists began to form an existing customers could sometimes wait up to 30 minutes to place a call but then in 1973 Motorola engineer Martin Cooper showed with the future would look like the Donna tech 8000x based on valve cell network concept it was the world's first handheld cell phone 10 years and a 100 million dollar investment later Motorola finally released the phone to the public might order a large pizza with mushrooms and chilies and the hottest peppers you can find the decade long delay was caught by the need to build the cellular infrastructure the phone required to operate the phone took ten hours to charge lasted 35 minutes and cost three thousand nine hundred and ninety five dollars which would be about ten thousand dollars today industry watchers say there are only a few thousand cellular phones in use right now but that number is expected to grow considerably within the next few years during summer and ahead of its time the IBM Simon can be considered the world's first smartphone the world's first touchscreen phone and the first phone to have software apps it cost around 1099 dollars new which would be around 1800 today the day Apple is going to reinvent the phone what we're going to do is get rid of all these buttons and just make a giant screen a giant screen just one month after one of the most popular BlackBerry devices was released the original iPhone hit shelves nationwide it would go on to sell more than 6 million units with new models introduced every year the iPhone would forever change mobile phones the computer industry and technology forever today's cellphones are a far cry from the $10,000 DynaTAC phone of 1983 and for many people the phone feature has become one of the least used features but in the future bones can make another drastic change the World Economic Forum thinks the first implantable phones will become commercially available by 2024
