In other words, they really were the “world’s first smartphone,” he said ... that the astronomical tool was a symbol of collective history. “This object is Islamic, Jewish and European ...

15 years doesn't seem like a long time ago, but believe it or not, in 2008, there were very few of what we would today call "smartphones" out in the wild. BlackBerry launched its first smartphones ...

Astrolabes were the “world’s first smartphone,” according to Cambridge ... by Dr. Federica Gigante at Cambridge University’s History Faculty while looking at a photo of the astrolabe ...

With the Treo, Palm expanded its popular PDA line to become one of the first smartphones. The Treo looked very similar to Blackberry’s phones, with a tiny keyboard at the bottom. The Treo ran ...

Ahead of its time, the IBM Simon could be considered the world's first smartphone, the world's first touchscreen phone, and the first phone to have software "apps." It cost $1,099 new — which ...

Starting with the introduction of the first Galaxy Note in 2011, Samsung has become one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world. They've developed dozens of premium smartphones including ...

The first iPhone had been warmly received but ... a true watershed moment in smartphone history. And so began the Apple tradition of adding an 'S' to the end of the name for a minor iPhone upgrade.