20 years to the first smartphone in history

Yesterday, November 23, turned 20 years old the first smartphone in history. In 1992, at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas, the world-first IBM Simon smartphone was introduced to the world.

It was designed by IBM using telecommunications company Bell South. In one device, engineers have combined the functions of a mobile phone, fax and pager. It was equipped with a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard.
IBM Simon had a calendar, a calculator, several games, an address book, world time and email.
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In the US, sales started in 1994 for $ 899.

In 2005, the smartphone received the award "50 of the greatest gadgets over the past 50 years"