The "Simon Personal Communicator" produced by IBM is considered as the first smartphone since the day it was released in 1994.  It was designed as a pocket computer with phone-like features. It had a calculator, a calendar, and an agenda. Besides, it was the first phone that had a touchscreen. 

With the Nokia 9000 Communicator, Nokia joined the smartphone industry in 1996. It claimed its place in history by being the first phone featuring a QWERTY keyboard.

1997 was the year of the beginning of the mobile gaming craze with smartphones. As we all know “Snake” became available for Nokia 6110 phones. The game is so simple and it still keeps up to date for almost all ages. 

Another huge company in the field, Ericsson, saw and raised Nokia's move by inventing the GS88 model. This model was the first phone we ever referred to as the "smartphone."

However, the most important development has been in 2001 with the access of smartphones to the Internet until that day. This opened up a whole new world to smartphone users, who could now send email attachments and video conference with their mobile devices.

Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple released the first iPhone model in its history. It ran on the iPhone OS operating system, and it had a massive touchscreen compared to the other products in the market. 

After a short while, The Taiwanese company HTC launched the first smartphone running the Android operating system in 2008. Thanks to this smartphone, features and apps like web browsers, Gmail, Google calendar, and Google maps came into our daily lives.

As a result, modern smartphones have more memory, speed and power than previously, and countless apps have become available. 

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