That invention sparked the beginning of the digital telecommunication phenomenon we see today. While personal cell phones have been around since the 1970s, the creation of the smartphone caught American consumers’ attention in an entirely new way.Īfter all, the three decades between the first mobile phone and the first smartphone saw the birth of the modern Internet.
After only six months, it had sold over 50,000 units. The Olympic games were held in Barcelonaīut in the middle of all that social and political change, 1992 was also the year that IBM unveiled the very first smartphone.įast forward two years, and the device officially hit the market for a cool $1,100.Let’s time travel all the way back to 1992. You might not know it, but the sleek, modern phones we use every day took a lot of different forms before we picked them off the shelf.
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