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Quoth · 09-02-2023, 08:32 AM

The Treo ran Palm OS and wasn't a decade before the iPhone, but 5 years (became Palm one year before iPhone came out). Handspring did PDAs and their first phone was in 2002. Engineers that didn't like 3Com (which was bad for Palm). Five years before iPhone and 4 years after Nokia's Smartphone.
I do remember "playing" with a fellow Engineer's Treo.
The first smartphone was IBM's made by Mitsubishi in 1994 and the term is from 1995. But Nokia's was the first successful one in 1998.
Nokia had made paper and welly-boots, then TVs, satellite setboxes and then some PCs before doing phones. They still do Telecom systems and the Nokia phone brand is licenced to TCL, who always made Alcatel phones.

09-02-2023, 08:32 AM	#45
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,449 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	The Treo ran Palm OS and wasn't a decade before the iPhone, but 5 years (became Palm one year before iPhone came out). Handspring did PDAs and their first phone was in 2002. Engineers that didn't like 3Com (which was bad for Palm). Five years before iPhone and 4 years after Nokia's Smartphone. I do remember "playing" with a fellow Engineer's Treo. The first smartphone was IBM's made by Mitsubishi in 1994 and the term is from 1995. But Nokia's was the first successful one in 1998. Nokia had made paper and welly-boots, then TVs, satellite setboxes and then some PCs before doing phones. They still do Telecom systems and the Nokia phone brand is licenced to TCL, who always made Alcatel phones. Last edited by Quoth; 09-02-2023 at 08:35 AM.