First Smartphone Of The World

Overview: Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival. After that it took 20 years to evolved smart phone era but the first true smartphone actually made its debut in 1992. People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995,

It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone.

IBM's Simon was the first phone to meld together the functions of a cell phone and a PDA, and it launched with the price tag of $899 with a service contract ($1,435 in today's dollars), according to Byte Magazine.

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The smartphone featured a monochrome LCD touchscreen measuring 4.5 inches by 1.4 inches, and it came with a stylus.

Aside from its calling capabilities, you could also use the Simon to send and receive emails, faxes, and pages. There were also a suite of built-in features including a notes collection you could write in, an address book that looked like file folder, calendar, world clock, and a way to schedule appointments.

Key Features: The smartphone featured a monochrome LCD touchscreen measuring 4.5 inches by 1.4 inches, and it came with a stylus.

Aside from its calling capabilities, you could also use the Simon to send and receive emails, faxes, and pages. There were also a suite of built-in features including a notes collection you could write in, an address book that looked like file folder, calendar, world clock, and a way to schedule appointments.

You could also run third-party applications on the Simon if you went to the trouble of freeing up enough space internally or purchased a special PC card to insert into the phone, according to a press release announcing the first third-party Simon application.

While the Simon would never achieve the widespread acclaim of the iPhone or Android phones, IBM did manage to sell approximately 50,000 units, according to Bloomberg Business week.

Mobile Operting System: Much like the Linux or Windows operating system controls your desktop or laptop computer, a mobile operating system is the software platform on top of which other programs can run on mobile devices. The operating system is responsible for determining the functions and features available on your device, such as thumb wheel, keyboards, WAP, synchronization with applications, email, text messaging and more. The mobile OS will also determine which third-party applications (mobile apps) can be used on your device

Types of Mobile Operating Systems: When you purchase a mobile device the manufacturer will have chosen the operating system for that specific device.  Often, you will want to learn about the mobile operating system before you purchase a device to ensure compatibility and support for the mobile applications you want to use. There were nine popular operating systems:

1. Android OS (Google Inc.)

2. Bada (Samsung Electronics)

3. BlackBerry OS (Research in motion)

4. Iphone OS / ios (APPLE)

5. MeeGo OS (NOKIA & INTEL)

6. Palm OS (Garnet OS)

7. Symbian OS (NOKIA)

8. Web OS (Palm/HP)

9. Windows Mobile (Windows Phone)

Timeline: Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones and smartphones:

Pre-1993

• 1973–1993 – Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.

1993–1999

• 1993 – Apple launch Newton OS running on their Newton series of portable computers.

• 1994 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email, and PDA features.

• 1996 – Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OS mobile operating system.

• 1998 – Symbian Ltd. has developed Symbian OS. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, and above all by Nokia.

• 1999 – Nokia S40 Platform is introduced officially along with the Nokia 7110.

2000s

• 2000 – Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380.

• 2001 – The Kyocera 6035 is the first smartphone with Palm OS.

• 2002

• Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.

• BlackBerry releases its first smartphone.

• 2005 – Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first Internet tablet N770.

• 2007

• Apple iPhone with iOS is introduced as an iPod, "mobile phone" and "Internet communicator".

• Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.

• 2008 – OHA releases Android (based on Linux kernel) 1.0 with the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the first Android phone.

• 2009

• Palm introduces webOS with the Palm Pre. By 2012, webOS devices were discontinued.

• Samsung announces the Bada OS with the introduction of the Samsung S8500. 2010s

• November – Windows Phone OS phones are released but are not compatible with the prior Windows Mobile OS. 2011

• July – MeeGo, a mobile Linux distribution, combining Maemo and Moblin, is introduced with the Nokia N9, a collaboration of Nokia, Intel, and Linux Foundation.

• September – Samsung, Intel, and the Linux Foundation announced that their efforts will shift from Bada, MeeGo to Tizen during 2011 and 2012.

• October – The Mer project was announced, based on an ultra-portable core for building products, composed of Linux, HTML5, QML, and JavaScript, which was derived from the MeeGo codebase. 2012

• July – Mozilla announced that the project formerly named Boot to Gecko (which was built atop an Android Linux kernel using Android drivers and services; however it used no Java-like code of Android) was now Firefox OS (since discontinued) and had several handset OEMs on board.

• September – Apple releases iOS 6.2013

• January – BlackBerry releases their new operating system for smartphones, BlackBerry 10.

• September – Apple releases iOS 7.

• October

• Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch (later discontinued), a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers and services, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.[6]

• Google releases Android KitKat 4.4. 2014

• February – Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8.1

• September

• Apple releases iOS 8

• BlackBerry release BlackBerry 10.3 with integration with the Amazon Appstore

• November – Google releases Android 5.0 "Lollipop" 2015

• February – Google releases Android 5.1 "Lollipop".

• September

• Apple releases iOS 9.

• Google releases Android 6.0 "Marshmallow".

• October – On October 26, BlackBerry announced that there are no plans to release new APIs and software development kits for BlackBerry 10, future updates would focus on security and privacy enhancements only.

• November – Microsoft releases Windows 10 Mobile.2016

• February – Microsoft released Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update.

• June – Apple announced iOS 10.

• August – Google posted the Fuchsia source code on GitHub.

• August – Google released Android 7.0 "Nougat".[7]

• September – Apple released iOS 10.

• November – Tizen released Tizen 3.0.

• November – BlackBerry released BlackBerry 10.3.3.2017

• April – Samsung officially launched Android-based Samsung Experience custom UI starting with version 8.1 on Samsung Galaxy S8

• April – Microsoft released Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update.

• May – Samsung officially introduce Tizen 4.0 at Tizen Developer Conference 2017.

• August – Google released Android 8.0 "Oreo".

• August – BlackBerry announced the Android-based BlackBerry Secure which focus on security.

• September – Apple introduces the iPhone 8, iPhone X, and iOS 11.

• October – On October 8, Microsoft announced that development of Windows 10 Mobile will be on maintenance mode only, thus there won't be any new feature would introduce to Windows 10 Mobile. 2018

• February – Samsung release Samsung 9.0 based on Android "Oreo" 8.0 globally to Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+

• March - Google and partners officially launched Android Go (based on Android "Oreo" 8.1 but tailored for low-end devices) with Nokia 1, Alcatel 1X, ZTE Tempo Go, General Mobile 8 Go, Micromax Bharat Go and Lava Z50.