A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. Its origins are gradual, spanning many contributors, rather than attributable to a single inventor or year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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YearSourced to the subject's own account SignificanceSourced to the subject's own accountThe IBM Simon, released in 1994, combined phone calls, a touchscreen PDA, fax and email in one handheld device and is retrospectively regarded as the first true smartphone. 1 Smartphone
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The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) is a cellular phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) designed by International Business Machines (IBM), released in 1994.
IBM Simon lead section, closing clause
due to these features and capabilities, it has retrospectively been referred to as the first true smartphone.
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A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone (feature phone) with advanced computing capabilities.
Associated With: Mobile Phone, Lead section, first sentence
A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone (feature phone) with advanced computing capabilities.
Associated With: Microprocessor, Hardware section, CPU sentence
In smartphones, the CPU is typically integrated in a CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) system-on-a-chip (SoC) application processor.
Associated With: Camera, Cameras section, first sentence
Cameras have become standard features of smartphones.
- In Group: Personal and Portable Computing Devices, lead states a smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities
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