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The first smartphone is IBM Simon
In addition to its ability to make and receive cellular phone calls, Simon was able to send and receive faxes and emails and included several other apps like address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, and note pad through its touch screen display -
Nokia released the Nokia 9000 Communicator
The first Nokia Smartphone had keyboard -
Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo released the first smartphones to achieve mass adoption within a country
These phones ran on i-mode, which provided data transmission speeds up to 9.6 kbit/s -
Touchscreen smartphone by Nokia
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3G was introduced
High speed internet has become available. -
The first iPhone
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Samsung became the biggest smartphone producers
