History of Smartphone evolution and Timeline
In our daily life, we normally look and use different types of Smartphones, but do we really know enough about these Smartphones? Here are some questions like - What exactly a “Smartphone” is? What are the advanced features of a SmartPhone? How smartphones evolved? Different types of Operating Systems used for Smartphones? Who used the term ‘Smartphone’ for the very first time? Which was the first smartphone? Evolution and history of smartphones.
Smartphones - Advance features and history
With the advancement of technology and regular development in electronic and communications field, existing electronic components are being replaced with emerging future technologies like Memristors etc. This regular advancement in communication sector can easily be described by taking a look over phones and mobile's history.
Advanced Features of Smartphones:
We will get many more new advanced features in upcoming smartphones in future. Types Operating Systems used by Smartphone
OS used by contemporary featured phones
The featured phone runs with the support of third party software through Java ME or BREW platforms and on proprietary firmware.What is the the Main difference between contemporary phones and SmartPhones?
The advance APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in smartphones allow better integration of third-party applications with their Operating systems and Hardware than other contemporary phones.Who used the term 'smartphone' very first?
The term 'smartphone' was first used by Ericsson in 1997 for their GS88 phone which was first labelled as Smartphone. Evolutionary history of smartphones
As said above Ericsson used the term 'Smartphone' for their GS88 phone and labelled it as Smartphone; the platform since 1996 used for them was Symbian. But in 2011, Google's Android OS outperformed it. Nokia in February 2011 declared to use Windows OS in their future Smartphones. Their first smartphones with Windows were 7.5 smartphones, Lumia 710 and 800. Year 1992
IBM Simon - designed in 1992, shown as a concept product in Las Vegas, Nevada. (The very First smartphone)
Features: Year 1996
Nokia Communicator line (First smartphone product of Nokia)
Features:Year 1997
Ericsson GS88 (First 'smartphone' labelled phone)Year 2000
Ericsson R380 Smartphone (first Smartphone product by Ericsson)
Features:
NOKIA 9210 Communicator (released in yr 2000)
Features:Year 2002
BlackBerry
First BlackBerry device was released by RIM in year 2002 with additional email functionality. It was the first Smartphone optimized for wireless email and it gained around 32 million subscribers by end of year 2009. Year 2007
NOKIA N95 Series
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Nokia 6110 Navigator
A Symbian based dedicated GPS phone introduced in June 2007.
Apple Inc. iPhone (Was the first iPhone by Apple Inc.)
Features:
This year Apple announced that iPhone would support third party "web 2.0 applications" running in its web browser that share the look and feel of the iPhone interface. Year 2008
Second generation iPhone by Apple
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HTC Dream
Android OS for Smartphones released in 2008 with its first phone HTC Dream.
Features:
Nexus One smartphone
Launched in January 2010 on Android OS. Year 2010
Apple iOS 4
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Apple iPhone 4
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Nokia N8 SmartPhones
Features: Year 2011
Apple iPhone 4S accounced on Oct 4, 2011
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HTC EVO 3D
was announced by HTC Corporation
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For the year 2012, everyone was waiting for Windows 8 OS based PCs and Smartphones expected to include a lot of apps and new features. If you are a mobile application developer then you can easily get a mobile from Microsoft as they are offering free Windows Phones to mobile application developers in India.