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Newyana2 wrote:

> Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>
>> I "snipped out" the rest of your description of rapid change (whatever 
>> that is) in the hope that somebody might clarify the claim that "Apple 
>> invented computer cellphones in 2008"
> 
>    Is that wrong? I just looked it up. It was actually 2007.
> Was there another computer cellphone before that? I'm
> not aware of any. There were cellphones that could make
> phone calls. But there were not apps, browsers, and so on,
> as far as I know. I welcome correction if I'm mistaken.
calling them "computer cellphones" just sounds odd.

Before smartphones, there were e.g. the Nokia 9000 series 
"communicators" which had email and web-browsing in mid '90s.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator>