{"id":448,"date":"2009-02-12T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/iphone-nothing-new\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:15:28","slug":"iphone-nothing-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/iphone-nothing-new\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone, nothing new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phone, PDA, touch screen all in 1992!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_%28phone%29\">IBM Simon &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was the first attempt to market a commercially viable smartphone and was a joint venture between IBM and BellSouth. Simon was first shown as a product concept in 1992[1] at COMDEX, the communications industry trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Launched in 1993[2] it combined the features of a mobile phone, a pager, a PDA, and a fax machine. After some delays it was sold by BellSouth in 1994 in 190 U.S. cities in 15 states and was originally priced at $899[3].<\/p>\n<p>Besides a mobile phone, the major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch-screen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with either a unique on-screen &#8220;predictive&#8221; keyboard or QWERTY keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The Simon smartphone appeared in the movie &#8220;The Net&#8221;, released in 1995 (see http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/net\/, http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113957\/).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=7cf64c05-ec12-41d7-874b-c3a88b34e669\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone, PDA, touch screen all in 1992! IBM Simon &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was the first attempt to market a commercially viable smartphone and was a joint venture between IBM and BellSouth. Simon was first shown as a product concept in 1992[1] at COMDEX, the communications industry trade show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}