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Originally Posted by tomsem
The webOS group started out as Palm, and they did a webOS phone, arguably 'the first smart phone' (one of the people I worked with had one still working), and Apple poached a couple of people to work on the first iPhone. HP bought them, there was a webOS tablet, which HP killed and then sold the group to LG. We worked on the webOS TVs.
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I have a Palm Z22 and I remember the later WebOS on Palm. But the first Smart Phone was 1998 and I had a Nokia Communicator 9110i in 2000 and the 2nd version of the Nokia 9210i in 2002. The symbian on 9210i was superior to later Symbain phones (internal Politics in 2003). Those were certainly real smartphones.
Didn't WebOS phone come after both Apple (2007) and Android (2008)?
There were prototype 4G (not LTE or WiMax, but Flarion) smart phones running Debian before the iPhone release, but they don't count as never released and Qualcomm bought Flarion and buried it purely for 4G patents.
I remember the Danger Hiptop SideKick (2003 approx). Microsoft managed to fail WinCE phones, bought Danger and failed it and bought Nokia's phone division (for $11B without name or IP) and failed it and put Windows Phone (based on Zune GUI rather than Win CE) GUI on Win8 and failed both of those. Oh, there was once a Microsoft Watch and a Tablet Edition of Windows 3.x (not NT) before Win95.