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oct 30, 1992 - First Smartphone

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Rob Stothard/Getty People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone

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oct 30, 1992
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~ 33 years ago

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