How far smartphones have come?
By Ashhad biju
@Ashhadbiju (4)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
September 5, 2015 6:31am CST
The first smartphone in the world that me and everyone else believes is the original iphone. It had a small screen WITH TOUCHSCREEN which was a huge thing back in the day. It had wifi which was actually pretty useless because back then even the so-called developed countries didn't have wifi. And yeah what you guys heard were right. Iphone started the smartphone realm and that is why it is really significant in smartphone development. Fast forward to the present and what do we see? Crazy fast processors, insane amounts of RAM, huge screens and by huge I mean REALLY HUGE SCREENS, lightning fast LTE, eye popping graphics, cameras that rival industry leading DSLR, advanced biometrics security systems like finger print scanning and retina scanning (a phone by the name ZTE AXON Elite does have it). And please don't tell me about pricing. You can get a well built all around smartphone for less than the price of some Air Jordan shoes. By that I mean from 400$ to as low as 200$ or 100$. Smartphones have progressed a lot. Technology have progressed a lot. Children's way of playing has changed a lot. Get your kid an Iphone or IPad and he is set for the whole summer. It is a great time to live huh?
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@topffer (42155)
• France
5 Sep 15
There were several smartphones before the iPhone (Palm Treos, Windows phones) and they were not bad at all. Apple took advantage of its name, and had a better marketing strategy and a more user-friendly gadget than others. And by the way, I have had wifi in a Sony Clie PDA 3 years before the iPhone, and wifi was everywhere in developed countries in 2007 when Apple launched the iPhone. There was more free wifi in my country in 2007 than today.
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@Ashhadbiju (4)
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
5 Sep 15
Yes your right, there were phones that had wifi even before the Iphone. But what I do want to indicate is that they weren't exactly 'SMART PHONES'. The reason Apple became popular with the Iphone was that they did something DIFFERENT. Yes Apple did copy some stuff from others but who cares. What consumers wanted back then is the same thing that we want today which is no matter who copies or imitates anyone or anything, we'll buy whichever is best.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
5 Sep 15
The first "smartphone" which combined a cellular phone with other capabilities, such as a touch-screen controlled personal organiser, calendar, clock, email, fax, notepad and so on was the Simon Personal Communicator, developed by IBM and sold by Bellsouth in 1994. It wasn't called a 'smartphone' at the time, of course.
The first iPhone was only released in 2007 and there had already been several previous devices which combined various functions and used a touch screen.(albeit needing a stylus to operate them). Android phones were introduced the following year.
It is strange to think that, in less than 10 years, the smartphone has become so ubiquitous that it is practically impossible not to see someone using one to take photos, to find their way when hiking or to read their emails or surf the Internet in the most unlikely places. It seems that the phone is now almost incidental to its other uses!
@Ashhadbiju (4)
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
9 Sep 15
Yes ur also right. But I think that the iPhone made the waves and had a good success which made other mobile phone manufacturers to bring their own smartphones. And yeah almost everyone these days are looking down at something. Whether it be smartphones or tablets or whatever it is that they are using these days.
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