All about smartphones.

2. WHAT IS A SMARTPHONE?
• A smartphone is a mobile phone built on
a mobile operating systems, with more
advanced computing system than a
regular phone.
• Some examples are Google’s Android,
Apple’s iOS, Nokia’s Symbian, RIM’s
Blackberry OS, Samsung’s Bada, and
Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

3. • To classify a smartphone
originally, it had to contain a
personal digital assistant
(PDA) with a mobile phone.
• Later, smartphones began to
contain portable media
players, low-end compact
cameras, pocket video
cameras, and GPS
navigation units.
• Modern smartphones
usually contain
touchscreens and web
browsers that display

4. • The first cellular device to
incorporate a PDA system
was developed in 1992 and
demonstrated at the
computer industry trade
show.
• The Simon was the first
device to be properly
referred to as a
“smartphone”.
• It contained address book,
calendar, appointment
scheduler, calculator, world
time clock, games,
electronic note pad,

5. • In 1996, Nokia released the
Nokia 9000. It was a palmtop
computer-style phone
combined with a PDA from
HP.
• In the late 1990’s, most
phones could only do basic
functions so most people
carried PDA’s.
• In early 2001, Palm, Inc.
introduced Kyocera 6035, the
first smartphone of the United
States. It had a PDA system
and was part of Verizon

6. THE FIRST SMARTPHONES
THE NOKIA
THE SIMON 9000

7. GOOGLE’S ANDROID
-Android is an open-
source platform
founded in
October 2003 by
Andy Rubin
-The Android
consists of many
applications, inclu
ding ones made
by Google.

8. APPLE’S IOS
-In 2007, Apple
introduced the
iPhone, one of the
first mobile
phones to use a
multi-touch
interface.
-The iPhone is
known for its
large touchscreen
for direct finger
input.

9. NOKIA’S SYMBIAN
-Symbian is a
mobile-operating
system originally
developed by
Psion and later
passed on to
Accenture.
-The first Symbian
was released in
2000 and had a
touchscreen.

10. RIM’S BLACKBERRY OS
- In 1999, RIM
released its
first BlackBerry
devices,
making secure
real-time push-
email
communication
s possible on
wireless
devices.

11. SAMSUNG’S BADA
- The Bada
operating system
for smartphones
was announced
by Samsung on
10 November
2009.
- The first Bada-
based phone was
the Samsung
Wave
S8500, released
on June 1, 2010.

12. MICROSOFT’S WINDOWS PHONE
- On February 15,
2010, Microsoft
unveiled its next-
generation
mobile OS,
Windows Phone
7.
- It includes full
integration of
Microsoft
services.