Date in year · 1992 · The 1990s
On November 23, 1992, the first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. The year's #1 song was "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men. Deng Linlin, Jack Buchanan, Chaz Mostert would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · November 23, 1992
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator is a cellular phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) designed by International Business Machines (IBM), released in 1994. 5 inch resistive touchscreen display and runs an MS-DOS-compatible operating system with the ability to install additional software using its PCMCIA slot, The Simon also has a modem for faxing and email and was also the first PDA to make phone calls through a cellular network; due to these features and capabilities, it has retrospectively been referred to as the first true smartphone.
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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1992nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1990s decade.
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The IBM Simon Personal Communicator is a cellular phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) designed by International Business Machines (IBM), released in 1994. 5 inch resistive touchscreen display and runs an MS-DOS-compatible operating system with the ability to install additional software using its PCMCIA slot, The Simon also has a modem for faxing and email and was also the first PDA to make phone calls through a cellular network; due to these features and capabilities, it has retrospectively been referred to as the first true smartphone.
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