History of the Smartphone

For the history buffs out there, here’s a video on the history of the cell phone:

From the What Might Have Been department, Palm was well ahead of its time.

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Way too much truth in that. The Palm is single handedly the original “smartphone” when one adds the modem adaptor to nearly any of their PDAs or uses their Palm Trio platform.

If it wasn’t for Palm then Blackberry would not have existed nor would even the OpenHandset (later Android) or nokia’s versions.

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