In 1946, the company AT&T developed the very first mobile network, it was in June 17th of this year that a truck driver placed the first ever wireless telephone call.
In 1972, Theodore George Paraskevakos filed the paperwork to the United States Patent Office and was granted the patent in 1974 for the first basic smartphone concept. IBM was the 1st company to combine a cellphone and a PDA in 1994, it was called the Simon Personal Communicator. Blackberry excelled the smartphone market in 1999 with their email device, which surprisingly didn not have the function of a phone in it. In the year 2000 the Swedish company Ericsson was the 1st company to actually call their phone a ‘smart-phone’ the very first use of the term. In 2007 Apple and their touchscreen took the smartphone industry by storm, however in 2008, powerhouse company Google blows up the smartphone market with the introduction of their Android OS. By the year 2010, more Android phones were sold than Apple and Symbian combined! In February of that year, Microsoft also unveiled the next generation mobile operating system – the windows phone. In the same year, the very first case of Virus in a smartphone occurred when Kaspersky Lab, a mobile security software developer identified what was said to be the 1st Trojan Virus for Android devices. Statistics show that by the year 2011, 491.4 million smartphones were sold worldwide and by the year 2012 there were 500 million active android devices.
It is expected that there will be an annual sale of 1,000,000,000 smartphones by the year 2016. The future of smartphones have many things in store for us; lots of reliable sources tell us that in the future we will be able to use features such as holographic technology, implanted smartphones within us. Future gadgets will be able to take on any shape that serves their new purpose as pure fashion accessories. We’ll one day be able to carry micro projectors, a quarter the size of the current smartphones, that will beam touch-screens on to any hard surface.
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