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The Smartphone has now become very popular especially in the young generation. Because its technology, more and more people has started to get one and use it because the technology used, implies lots of features and of course, many tools and applications. A smartphone is a kind of a mobile phone with the difference that it implies advanced abilities, abilities associated with PC functions (for example is having its own operating system offering a specific interface just like the computer does).

A smartphone implies features like e-mail, Internet and e-book reader ability and many of them have their own Office Pack with Word, PowerPoint and others. Some of smartphones have an internal (built-in) keyboard or an external keyboard which can be connected to the smartphone through USB.

Thus, the Smartphone is a minicomputer, offering features just like the normal PC does, with the advantage that the smartphone has also phone mobile abilities.

As the demand for smartphones has grown, specialist started to implement more features like expanded memory, lager screens or powerful processors.

Ok, this is happening in our times. But what about the first Smartphone? Which is the first smartphone created and what features it did imply?

Well, we know that the very very first smartphone created was Simon. Simon was created and designed by IBM since the 1992s. The concept of "smartphone" was revealed and presented to the world, during the COMDEX show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Simon smartphone presented features like world clock (it could show you the time in all the countries in the world and with its help you could synchronize your time with the time of any country), note pad (usually used to take notes), email, calculator, calendar (it wasn't just a simple calendar but it allowed you to also markup events in certain days and to set an alarm for that event), receive and send faxes but also for the gamers, it allowed you to install games and play them.

But one special thing that Simon smartphone had was the distinct keyboard. A special concept was revealed, the concept of "on-screen keyboard".

The On-screen keyboard was a built-in keyboard showed on the screen. For using the phone's keyboard, people should have touched the screen with their fingers because there wasn't anymore a keyboard with physical buttons.

With the past of time and the technology evolution, scientists implemented in all smartphones the touch-screen concept. They didn't use the touch screen just for the dialing keyboard, but also for the writing one. But some people were unsatisfied, because it was kinda hard to write text messages from a completely touch screen phone, as you may touch wrong the screen because its sensivity. So, they created smartphones with both touch screen keypad and also the standard keyboard. Such phones were named QWERTY phones.

The QWERTY Smartphones helped people to write easier, and because it looks like a minicomputer, they can easily use it to surf on the web, use instant messenger and using easily many other features.

The smartphones are perfect if you are a business person or you want/need features that a computer has, but it has the disadvantage of the cost. A smartphone costs at least 159 Euro and not many afford to buy such a phone.