1 thing that people don't realise is the first pda was released in 1987. This device consisted of a small rectangular box which had 6 keys and a spacebar. The device was called the Braille N Speak and it was designed for blind students to take notes in class. Various people have put up videos demonstrating this device.
dude that mobile workstation is STILL awesome.. its got a phone you can use without losing the screen. its got a HUGE work space with pen, that wont be messed up with your palm touching it, it has a huge antenna for reliable reception.. and its grayscale so its efficient on battery.. if they remade it today, i would want all those features.. that thing is awesome!!
If I understand your desires correctly - and correct me if I'm wrong - I think I got a cheaper, yet more efficient alternative for you: a phone, a piece of paper and a pencil :)
Imagine people 10-20 years down the road watching this video.. they will be thinking 'phones in the past only have 4gb ram and 8/10 cores and it is considered revolutionary?! Mine's have 16gb ram and 32 cores...'
Wow, that AT&T commercial seemed to nail it pretty well. Honestly, I thought nothing could top computers in general or even the internet, but smartphones really are a revolution onto themselves. It was such a subtle process (going from PDAs and flip-phones, to a unified device between them) that now that it's reached worldwide, it's far more revolutionary than could have been realized, but ads like the AT&T one from 1992 showed that people were thinking about it for a long time.
I claim it's not about people being ready but products, despite some good ideas, weren't ready, had bad flaws and/or bad marketing. They had critical shortcomings like for example early smartphones didn't use capacitive touchscreens but resistive which in practice weren't very good. Smartphones were targeted to business people which is limited target. Apple managed to make actually functional product without critical shortcomings, had hype and all marketing power and targeted wide audience.
Dagogo, so you're just going to skip over Nokia "smart" phones starting with the communicator from 1996? That was more capable than the Simon. The nice thing about them is they had physical qwerty keys and touch screen. But it seems Nokia gets forgotten even though they where the first to do many things with mobile phones.
+n0ti5 This video was about the first smartphone so the communicator wasn't necessary. But if you like, I've already covered it here: th-cam.com/video/RQEn19symz0/w-d-xo.html
And the Palm Treo line of phones with colour screen using a stylus and with a camera. I had a Treo 650 in 2005 colour screen, stylus for touch, camera, e-mail, bluetooth, SD card (not micro), I think Internet but it was over ten years ago I forget. I still have the phone too it powers on but the screen has a large discoloured area on it. After that 2007 I got a Nokia N95 that was a nicer phone by leaps it was amazing just two years later the advancement in camera and features.
@ David Hughes, yeah i wasn't that cool. In that time i was using the 6682 I had a 2gb MMC (multi media card) in it. Had a decent 1.3mp camera for its time, it had a specific nokia headphone proprietary plug its sucked that it had no 3.5mm plug jack. And i'm pretty sure some jackass at the airport stole it and i bet they where never able to use it because of the weird plug. I bought some bluetooth headphones but they only worked in mono i was upset about that because i used my phone alot during that time to listen to music. That was a great phone i also upgraded to n95 after that, then n8 then 808 then n9. after that i cried because nokia died.
Apple gets a lot more credit than they deserve as Nokia,blackberry,and HTC all were shipping smart phones years before the iphone. The only innovation the iphone brought was dropping nearly all of the physical buttons. In someways this was a step backwards in usability.
hey just wanted you to know that your walmart video is still private, or it is restricted in Nepal? I got notification in TH-cam app but couldn't play till now.
Hsehs Z'roc Thanks mate, I am aware. I wrote the reason for the Walmart video in the description: "A few of you would be wondering what happened to "How BIG is Walmart?" The Audio turned out pretty messed up so I'm going to fix it and re-upload when I get back home (I'm still away in Europe) Cheers." Pretty annoying but I want to make sure the videos uploaded on this channel are of good quality :)
ColdfusTion thanks mate. I don't wanna miss any of your videos and so was curious. I also didn't see the description before commenting. Anyways you have a grt time in your journey. Cheers!
My first smartphone is a O2 XDAii from 2004. Being a massive nerd I had PDAs before the XDAii, it was amazing to finaly get the Phone + PDA in the one device. That ability to wirelessly effect digital systems from your pocket was mind blowing.
Thank you for a solid and informative walk down memory land. I remember most of these phones. Lost pioneer need their names mentioned. They got us this far. Great video.
While not the first, there was a Palm Pilot clone/cell phone called "Handspring". I was seriously considering one of those, but it was GSM only and my cell carrier didn't provide GSM at that time.
IBM: Introducing the new pda, fax, filer, and phone all in one. (1992) (Sold 50 thousand units) Apple: What IBM did, but shiny! (2008) (Sold several million units) IBM: Introducing Watson, the smartest doctor you'll ever need. (2010) (Moderately well known) Apple: What Watson does, but shiny and stupid! (2010) (Most popular AI ever)
your video is so interesting and ur voice is very good..I'd like to hear more fact from ur channel..and this are my suggestion..how about ....1st. old technology that people still used until these day...2nd. evolution of social media or anything on the internet 3. documentary on gaming, i dunno...maybe p.s or xbox.. etc...etc..tq :) keep it up!!
Palm Phone - I have one of the first Palm Pilot phones, which measures 6"x3"x1", which has a folding "clamshell" style dial pad, a telescoping antenna, an IR blaster, and a 2.5mm headset jack. The stylus, was able to slide into a slot, similar to how the Galaxy Note phones do.
I really love your informative and interesting clips. I hope you get some kind of reward from all the work you put into your productions. Cheers from Sweden!
I worked for a company that also owned 7 cell phone/beeper stores when this came out and we were selling them as part of our partnership with BellSouth. No one knew why they were needed then.
Great video, but only part of the story. You left out the first mobile pda to connect to the Internet. The palm 7x, that was a massive part of the story that created the mobile phone of today. Your video speaks more to the software GUI integrated into a phone. I had an NES emulator running on mine :)
He also forgot the Symbian UIQ series (Sony Ericsson p800 up to w950 Ang g900), which was immensely popular and which did everything the first gen iPhone did plus more (such as video recording and digital zoom on photos). Oh, and Windows Mobile, also very popular. Then there is Palm. This video is an IBM Simon vs first gen Apple iPhone video comparison passed of as "history of smartphones".
Totaly forgot abou the Ericsson R380 and handspring that was relized about the same time. it was only 5 years between Simon and the R380... and the R380 was actually a rather good phone. It was also quite a bit smaler.
matsv201 I had an Ericsson R380 in 2001 - literally the worst phone I ever had. Compatible with nothing, apps were almost useless due to tiny capacity and limited functionality, and it crashed daily and would frequently switch itself off. But it was very definitely a touch (stylus) screen smart phone way ahead of its time! It was so terrible though I went back to dumb phones 'til I got an iPhone 4 almost ten years later.
waz9188 ". Compatible with nothing," Of cause it was not, it was the first one of its kind, there was nothing it could be comparability to.... well that is not really true, it could use EPOC software, and there was a bit of that. But you have to install it manually, there was no app store. I never did have a problem with the phone crashing. Did you update the system? Of cause the R380 was really the first of its kind. The year after was both the Handspring Treo that was based of palm and there for have quite a lot of aps. But more over the P800 that had a real web browser and GPRS support My point is that the R380 may not be perfect, but it was the first smartphone that actually sold any significant number that was similar to how they work today. People tend to forget that the original iPhone had no 3G and a low resolution screen. Compare the P800 with the original iphone it was really just a upgrade from 320 pixel scrren to a 480 pixel screen.. in 5 years. The iphone was slimer and lighter.. by 20 grams. The P800 had quite a bit more battery, that was exchangeable and also expandable memory as well as a front cover plate. Yea more memory and faster processor, but its really just because it was relised later. People tend to forget, the original iphone was horrible before it got multitasking, 3G more ram and a decent number of aps. There was also a few older smartphones that sold well like the Nokia 9000 communicator that was the first smartphone of any type that sold in any reasonable numbers.But it was of the previus notebook type layout. I actually got a Revo psion and a Ericsson 880 back in 1998 that could browse the web with a wireless connection, but of cause it was two devices. Also there where no GPRS so it was not really that practical.
Hhaahaha, people who are saying that, dont know anything about technology!! But the Only Argument of iPhone victims is "it was the First, without iPhone no other smartphones would exist" bullshit.
***** will i guess we would've stayed in Symbian windows phone old operating system if the iphone didn't come out so yea , you gotta give credit to the iphone , am an android user
farex aldo But the iphone is just a copy of the Samsung F700 so that is null and void. :) Plus Blackberry had been around for many years as THE smartphone to have (it was the only official phone leaders in most countries were allowed to use...)
Defensive Wounds but no one cared about those phone because they did not do anything right everyone hated them because they were not reliable they had to many mistakes , plus dont forget the i-mate it was the best
The earliest devices I could think of is the old Nokia Communicator, Then Palm Treo and Compaq iPAQ where some of these PDAs did have cell phone functionality, either built in or as a CompactFlash expansion (which essentally is a miniaturized PCMCIA slot). You could also get PCMCIA GSM modules for your laptop as early as in the '90s. So if you had a touchscreen laptop, that would be one of the first.
"My dream system would integrate voice mail" Okay "email" Okay "fax" Wait, what? "It would have one, maybe two buttons" We're still working on that one. Mine has 3 buttons: power/lock, volume up, and volume down.
It's crazy that this was pretty much the same idea behind the iPhone. I feel like the biggest difference between this and the first iPhone is just that technology had advanced enough to execute it in a more accessible and appealing way. And that didn't really come from apple either. A lot of the technology just advanced over time, and came from research done either publicly or by other companies.
13 years? Windows Mobile had phones identical to the iPhone less than ten years later. You can't look up the world smart phone anymore but you can look up PDA phone since that'd what we call it in retrospect. They were exactly the same as what we have no and even in some ways more advanced. The only difference was that instead of the face of the device being a capacitive screen it was s resistive screen. I had the HTC Athena which was pretty much exactly like the Samsung note back in 2007. It had a huge touch screen in front, a front facing camera for video chat and a stylus for writing and sketching. It was also an amazing GPS navigation device and ran hundreds of thousands of windows ce apps, even bit torrent and Winamp. It was incredible
That's why I unsubscribed from this channel ages ago. The guy is too in love with Apple and that bias shows through and ruins just about anything trying to be presented. Like this video. The video is well made, and bothers to try and present a fact, but then ignores a huge chunk of information to give some pointless further glorification toward Apple. Like we're supposed to just conveniently believe nothing happened from the actual first touch screen "smart" phone by IBM until Apple came along in 2007? Like you mentioned lots of resistive screen PDA's and such existed throughout those 13 years. I mean this could have been a really interesting educational video. But yeah, skips over lots to give Apple further glory.
+STcraft You're forgetting the home button on the iPhone, which has always been a hardware button. I was always a fan of hardware keyboards, but I guess I was one of the only ones. The Keyboard on the first Droid was my favorite.
I love your videos! When you asked what was the first smartphone, I said the O2 XDA (a phone I had back in the day)....but looks like I was off by about 8 years :-)
Before people start calling me names - Read this carefully and think about what I am about to say. I Started crying at the end of this video. Just to think about how privileged we are to have come so far and how privileged we are to benefit from the awesome technology we have today. Think about it - What would you be doing right now if you didn't have the technological medium to be watching this video and reading my comment? Answer that honestly, and then think about how technology benefits us everyday. • Ease of communication (How else would you find your fiends in a massive crowded city filled with Hundreds of Thousands of people?) • Educational Benefits - Did this video Educate you? - I certainly learnt something from this video. • And many more. I hope this opened your mind a little bit. This is why I cried. Technology is the future, and this is just the beginning. - If you can get rid of all your mental filters and preconceptions - You can expand your mind to a whole new sphere of possibility
STiCKxaH Not to be a buzzkill. but that argument holds in every era, the period is just getting shorter. 50 years ago we could say the same about television (that was magical at the time). 100 years ago we could say that about telephones (talking with someone on the other side of the country?!?). Hell, even electricity. We've also had that transition in transportation with cars, trains... etc. Not to mention the amazing insights of Newton and many other scientists who figured out so many important things hundreds of years ago, or the Greek who laid the foundation of mathematics thousands of years ago. The Egyptians who pioneered architecture and construction techniques... Not to mention the revolutions caused by the first civilizations , or even earlier, the first farmers. All of these people in history had things to be proud of. They've all been able to look back and think that they are oh-so advanced compared to those who came before them. It is amazing indeed how far we've come, but now imagine what could be possible in the next 1000 years. Keep in mind, science really only has existed for 400 years. Everything we figured out before that was a lucky guess. Only recently have we really been able to _predict_ the future using the scientific method. We're only a small link in a very long chain. People in the future will laugh at our technology just like we laugh at carvings in stone tablets. Soo my point is... relax. Have some perspective. Let's not feel privileged for the technology we have, let's instead focus on pushing that technology as far as we can for the generations to come. It's our duty to be a strong link in the chain.
err • Ease of communication (How else would you find your fiends in a massive crowded city filled with Hundreds of Thousands of people?) Call them or, as i spend more time with them, there is a good chance i know where they will be aka there routine. • Educational Benefits - Did this video Educate you? - I certainly learnt something from this video - read a book you can learn a lot more. Or go find something out yourself, better the human race rather than just absorbing things.... • And many more - ditto Can you tell i was around before the internet / smart phones were so mainstream
I wonder why the HandSpring Tréo Smartphone is seldom mentioned running Palm o/s it was superb. I still have mine it was fast for 2002/03 was touch screen with stylus, apps etc LONG before apple came on the scene. They get plaudits but Tréo was the original proper Smartphone. Enjoy your videos really well made. Blessings from Glasgow Scotland. Gary.
Apple never claimed to be first, they invented a bunch of stuff to make modern smartphones work. Blackberry was massive before iphone, multi touch changed that. Its crazy how ahead of its time that phone was. If we didn't care about GUI & apps they would be so different now
Zoran Zivanovic Except they didn't invent anything, Apple got Foxconn to put together a few parts from Samsung and Texas instruments and called it an iPhone. Meanwhile Nokia was already doing the same thing just in a different form factor.
I bought this phone when it was launched and I still have the phone to this day. I love it. Even now. I had a 500mb pcmcia memory card and it cost 400 dollars then. The phone was around 1200 dollars and I purchased it from Bellsouth Mobility.
Man...I didn't have my first cell phone 'till 2007, when I turned 19, it wasn't that my parents or I couldn't afford one before, I just didn't care that much and didn't have much of a developed social life until that age (terrible I know), I got my first smartphone after researching a lot and already being a technology geek (gaming consoles and PC) without that much money in my childhood, I got a Galaxy S2, finally PC-like features on smartphones were evolved enough for me to want one (also first time having proper internet in a phone for me).
And here I am decades later watching this with a no bezel, in display fingerprint sensor, camera cutout, pocket computer. Its f**king insane how much technology evolves.
+MrBlueSnowman I like android. You know the better company. The one thats actually working with other companies to improve the mobile Industry instead of cutting off the other companies and thinking there better. The one that has more than 2* the devices that apple has. The one that has to deal with apple copying their ideas. I could go on.
+Tristan Hollis I like your debating skill. You brought up some good points and I have nothing against any os. If it makes you feel any better too, I like android as well (but maybe in the future it'll be a bit smoother) :)
1 thing that people don't realise is the first pda was released in 1987. This device consisted of a small rectangular box which had 6 keys and a spacebar. The device was called the Braille N Speak and it was designed for blind students to take notes in class. Various people have put up videos demonstrating this device.
It's amazing to see how people up until 90's were so calm and gentle. Also the environment was soothing. 💜
You mean unsettling?
No, I meant gentle and smart. You may have replied wrong comment.
nikoli gogle
No surely you mean unsettlingly fake.
Go home, you are a 9th grader and a junkee or maybe also an illegal child.
nikoli gogle Based off smoke and mirrors i presume?
"And it would have one- maybe two buttons. Ha!"
that prediction tho
Now phone have three buttons 😂. Prediction was near but not accurate.
The question is does Simon have a headphone jack?
iooi it was a joke because of the iphone 7
iFive. just like shitphone 7
Daniel Covey *iPhone 8 to 10
Dmendes No. He's right. 7-10
Zenochrillium no chance! 😨
dude that mobile workstation is STILL awesome.. its got a phone you can use without losing the screen. its got a HUGE work space with pen, that wont be messed up with your palm touching it, it has a huge antenna for reliable reception.. and its grayscale so its efficient on battery.. if they remade it today, i would want all those features.. that thing is awesome!!
If I understand your desires correctly - and correct me if I'm wrong - I think I got a cheaper, yet more efficient alternative for you: a phone, a piece of paper and a pencil :)
You can also use a tablet + phone or put your phone in speaker mode
nd you can use it for self defense as a brick
I want that so bad
Imagine people 10-20 years down the road watching this video.. they will be thinking 'phones in the past only have 4gb ram and 8/10 cores and it is considered revolutionary?! Mine's have 16gb ram and 32 cores...'
xTJRsAsEAx Or may be more
Tihomir Hristov Sounds great :D
***** exactly. Or just teleport if u need to speak with someone
Tihomir Hristov Totally!! xD
***** I'd rather not have those stuff... its scary even to think to have a device implanted inside your brain lol
This was certainly an innovative, revolutionary device for its time.
I'm surprised the Simon didn't take off. That's really an unheard of, revolutionary product. Very interesting, never even knew about this.
ikr
Bobby T. the price must be a factor
Back in the 90s a phone was only for calls and texts so that was really just a gimmick really.
Wow, that AT&T commercial seemed to nail it pretty well. Honestly, I thought nothing could top computers in general or even the internet, but smartphones really are a revolution onto themselves. It was such a subtle process (going from PDAs and flip-phones, to a unified device between them) that now that it's reached worldwide, it's far more revolutionary than could have been realized, but ads like the AT&T one from 1992 showed that people were thinking about it for a long time.
simon had a bigger screen than the original iphone
ikr hahaha
Most 00s phones were small.
Still tho, R.I.P Steve Jobs he will be missed, don't make fun of a deceased person's technology
... What about nazi tech?
SAY WHA? True
Touch screen phones were available before the iPhone, but Apple popularized it.
Technology Spotlight o rlly Dr. Phil?
I was using windows phone before the iphone came out.
Yes, i-mate with Windows CE
Are u normal
its fantastic tech born in the wrong time
its shitter than we have now
shune84 no shit Sherlock
shune84. 2050: wow iphone 7 is gay
Blaze Shredz ikr
@@shune84 That 16mhz cpu and 1mb ram could of easily run latest computer games of the time.
The simon looked like a really good phone at the time
People just weren't ready. Still aren't.
I think the point he is trying to make is that YOU are the one that is stupid.
OriginalNeoSupreme
The only thing you need to do is replace the period with a comma.
Makshogun YT
I don't think you understand
it was expensive as fuk so no one cared back then
I claim it's not about people being ready but products, despite some good ideas, weren't ready, had bad flaws and/or bad marketing. They had critical shortcomings like for example early smartphones didn't use capacitive touchscreens but resistive which in practice weren't very good. Smartphones were targeted to business people which is limited target. Apple managed to make actually functional product without critical shortcomings, had hype and all marketing power and targeted wide audience.
Dagogo, so you're just going to skip over Nokia "smart" phones starting with the communicator from 1996? That was more capable than the Simon. The nice thing about them is they had physical qwerty keys and touch screen. But it seems Nokia gets forgotten even though they where the first to do many things with mobile phones.
+n0ti5 This video was about the first smartphone so the communicator wasn't necessary. But if you like, I've already covered it here: th-cam.com/video/RQEn19symz0/w-d-xo.html
And the Palm Treo line of phones with colour screen using a stylus and with a camera. I had a Treo 650 in 2005 colour screen, stylus for touch, camera, e-mail, bluetooth, SD card (not micro), I think Internet but it was over ten years ago I forget. I still have the phone too it powers on but the screen has a large discoloured area on it. After that 2007 I got a Nokia N95 that was a nicer phone by leaps it was amazing just two years later the advancement in camera and features.
n0ti5
@ David Hughes, yeah i wasn't that cool. In that time i was using the 6682 I had a 2gb MMC (multi media card) in it. Had a decent 1.3mp camera for its time, it had a specific nokia headphone proprietary plug its sucked that it had no 3.5mm plug jack. And i'm pretty sure some jackass at the airport stole it and i bet they where never able to use it because of the weird plug. I bought some bluetooth headphones but they only worked in mono i was upset about that because i used my phone alot during that time to listen to music. That was a great phone i also upgraded to n95 after that, then n8 then 808 then n9. after that i cried because nokia died.
Apple gets a lot more credit than they deserve as Nokia,blackberry,and HTC all were shipping smart phones years before the iphone.
The only innovation the iphone brought was dropping nearly all of the physical buttons.
In someways this was a step backwards in usability.
0:16 That was the first smartphone that my family had. My dad got the iPhone 4 when I was four years old.
hey just wanted you to know that your walmart video is still private, or it is restricted in Nepal? I got notification in TH-cam app but couldn't play till now.
Hsehs Z'roc Thanks mate, I am aware. I wrote the reason for the Walmart video in the description: "A few of you would be wondering what happened to "How BIG is Walmart?" The Audio turned out pretty messed up so I'm going to fix it and re-upload when I get back home (I'm still away in Europe)
Cheers."
Pretty annoying but I want to make sure the videos uploaded on this channel are of good quality :)
ColdfusTion thanks mate. I don't wanna miss any of your videos and so was curious. I also didn't see the description before commenting. Anyways you have a grt time in your journey. Cheers!
ColdfusTion Perhaps you could post the link, and if people was eager enough (as I am) to use a proxy to Nepal, they could watch it.
Hsehs Z'roc hi bro glad to know u are also from nepal
+ColdfusTion I love your videos there great
😎
+1 if you're watching this on a Simon personal computer in 2015
+Kevin Arnold Simon personal computers didnt have internet.
cale devers TH-cam works well on 1G :P
Kevin Arnold i dont think they had internet at all.
cale devers I'm writing this reply with one right now!
+Kevin Arnold I'm watching this on an Apple Performa because I've got no self-respect.
That "hold your laughter" while you are thinking where could you buy that...
I feel like a nerd knowing this before you made the video
My first smartphone is a O2 XDAii from 2004. Being a massive nerd I had PDAs before the XDAii, it was amazing to finaly get the Phone + PDA in the one device. That ability to wirelessly effect digital systems from your pocket was mind blowing.
Mine was a…..something Star! Here in Fairbanks Alaska it was big money. Why I’m looking through these videos, looking for that phone.
I cant believe you dont have 10mil subs.
Videos are so good.
Thank you for a solid and informative walk down memory land. I remember most of these phones. Lost pioneer need their names mentioned. They got us this far. Great video.
The iphone is by no means the first smartphone.
It's the first smartphone everyone could actually use.
No kidding, my grandma has one.
Rubbish the Palm Treo was the first true, usable smartphone no question.
While not the first, there was a Palm Pilot clone/cell phone called "Handspring". I was seriously considering one of those, but it was GSM only and my cell carrier didn't provide GSM at that time.
Great video man, and idk if anyone realizes this but the combination of his voice and the music is so....calming.
I want a time machine, take my s7 to back then. I'd be the new god.
Ok m8, but would u use wifi or 5g? Hahahahahah
@@thur9368 The S7 doesn't have 5g capabilities.
You stupid fuck, it wouldn't work for shit back then. Just be this futuristic useless toy.
@@tqsuited ur the dumb fuck that can't handle a saying
I feel like people, especially the inventor would be optimistic.
Doraemon was made in the year 1969 by Fujiko Fujio.. in those days,he thought of
voice controlled devices... You are a legend mr fujio .... RIP
Is just a cartoon
IBM: Introducing the new pda, fax, filer, and phone all in one. (1992) (Sold 50 thousand units)
Apple: What IBM did, but shiny! (2008) (Sold several million units)
IBM: Introducing Watson, the smartest doctor you'll ever need. (2010) (Moderately well known)
Apple: What Watson does, but shiny and stupid! (2010) (Most popular AI ever)
Bilbo_Gamers yes but the first iPhone was 500$ and this pda was 1000$
chedder140 Yeah, but the pda came out 2 decades beforehand.
Cause the pda was made in Japan by Mitsubishi. And the Iphone in some shitty Foxcon factory.
Bilbo_Gamers iphone was released in 2007 not 2008
We own a lot to IBM.
Really appreciate your passion in giving your time and effort to research and present a beautiful piece of art to the world. Cheers!
Aren't Symbian S60 or even S40 considered smart phones. You could install applications. Isn't that the differentiating factor.
Ronak Dhakan S40, S60 those are found on Nokia's phones before it's fall
your video is so interesting and ur voice is very good..I'd like to hear more fact from ur channel..and this are my suggestion..how about ....1st. old technology that people still used until these day...2nd. evolution of social media or anything on the internet 3. documentary on gaming, i dunno...maybe p.s or xbox..
etc...etc..tq :) keep it up!!
Palm Phone - I have one of the first Palm Pilot phones, which measures 6"x3"x1", which has a folding "clamshell" style dial pad, a telescoping antenna, an IR blaster, and a 2.5mm headset jack. The stylus, was able to slide into a slot, similar to how the Galaxy Note phones do.
Please make more videos about history of tech. Love this one.
What's the name of the computer on 5:56 ?
What happened to your Wallmart history video??
The description says the audio is pretty meesed up, so he need to re-fix it but he's still in Europe
+ben wa
The LOW PRICE happy face monster killed it. slashed it with low price sword and popped a cap with the pricing gun.
I really love your informative and interesting clips. I hope you get some kind of reward from all the work you put into your productions. Cheers from Sweden!
24 iSheeps disliked the video and then threw away their iPhones *silently*
thiruvetti 34 peeps because haven't kayaks haven't
401 now
I came here after Dagogo made an entire video about IBM and mentioned how this is the first ever smartphone.
Still more features than an iPhone
Aditya Ravishankar no....
Aditya Ravishankar Hehehehe. Good 1.
Tamir Oulu yes
Lol yeah
Lol ... Fuck you Assdroid
I worked for a company that also owned 7 cell phone/beeper stores when this came out and we were selling them as part of our partnership with BellSouth. No one knew why they were needed then.
Great video, but only part of the story. You left out the first mobile pda to connect to the Internet. The palm 7x, that was a massive part of the story that created the mobile phone of today. Your video speaks more to the software GUI integrated into a phone. I had an NES emulator running on mine :)
He also forgot the Symbian UIQ series (Sony Ericsson p800 up to w950 Ang g900), which was immensely popular and which did everything the first gen iPhone did plus more (such as video recording and digital zoom on photos). Oh, and Windows Mobile, also very popular. Then there is Palm. This video is an IBM Simon vs first gen Apple iPhone video comparison passed of as "history of smartphones".
The best channel I found on youtube. Keep up the good work.. I'm a big fan of your work !!!
I'm not a techie but 1 mb of ram actually sounds pretty impressive for the early 90's. I was expecting way lower. I dunno.
Very good video! Interesting topic and very well explained. :)
Totaly forgot abou the Ericsson R380 and handspring that was relized about the same time. it was only 5 years between Simon and the R380... and the R380 was actually a rather good phone. It was also quite a bit smaler.
matsv201 I had an Ericsson R380 in 2001 - literally the worst phone I ever had. Compatible with nothing, apps were almost useless due to tiny capacity and limited functionality, and it crashed daily and would frequently switch itself off. But it was very definitely a touch (stylus) screen smart phone way ahead of its time!
It was so terrible though I went back to dumb phones 'til I got an iPhone 4 almost ten years later.
waz9188
". Compatible with nothing,"
Of cause it was not, it was the first one of its kind, there was nothing it could be comparability to.... well that is not really true, it could use EPOC software, and there was a bit of that. But you have to install it manually, there was no app store.
I never did have a problem with the phone crashing. Did you update the system?
Of cause the R380 was really the first of its kind.
The year after was both the Handspring Treo that was based of palm and there for have quite a lot of aps. But more over the P800 that had a real web browser and GPRS support
My point is that the R380 may not be perfect, but it was the first smartphone that actually sold any significant number that was similar to how they work today.
People tend to forget that the original iPhone had no 3G and a low resolution screen.
Compare the P800 with the original iphone it was really just a upgrade from 320 pixel scrren to a 480 pixel screen.. in 5 years. The iphone was slimer and lighter.. by 20 grams. The P800 had quite a bit more battery, that was exchangeable and also expandable memory as well as a front cover plate.
Yea more memory and faster processor, but its really just because it was relised later.
People tend to forget, the original iphone was horrible before it got multitasking, 3G more ram and a decent number of aps.
There was also a few older smartphones that sold well like the Nokia 9000 communicator that was the first smartphone of any type that sold in any reasonable numbers.But it was of the previus notebook type layout.
I actually got a Revo psion and a Ericsson 880 back in 1998 that could browse the web with a wireless connection, but of cause it was two devices. Also there where no GPRS so it was not really that practical.
You are awesome man, this is the best channel ever
I thought it was the iPhone 2g??? - apple fans
Hhaahaha, people who are saying that, dont know anything about technology!!
But the Only Argument of iPhone victims is "it was the First, without iPhone no other smartphones would exist" bullshit.
***** will i guess we would've stayed in Symbian windows phone old operating system if the iphone didn't come out so yea , you gotta give credit to the iphone , am an android user
farex aldo But the iphone is just a copy of the Samsung F700 so that is null and void. :) Plus Blackberry had been around for many years as THE smartphone to have (it was the only official phone leaders in most countries were allowed to use...)
Defensive Wounds The f700 is just a slidy phone with a touch screen. Besides, everyone copied the phone Coldfustion showed.
Defensive Wounds but no one cared about those phone because they did not do anything right everyone hated them because they were not reliable they had to many mistakes , plus dont forget the i-mate it was the best
The earliest devices I could think of is the old Nokia Communicator, Then Palm Treo and Compaq iPAQ where some of these PDAs did have cell phone functionality, either built in or as a CompactFlash expansion (which essentally is a miniaturized PCMCIA slot). You could also get PCMCIA GSM modules for your laptop as early as in the '90s. So if you had a touchscreen laptop, that would be one of the first.
Still better then iPhone 7
yup, still better then a note 7.... BOOM!
Note 7 was good, aside from the explody boom-boom thing. iPhone 7 has major (intended) design flaws.
Soon we'll be laughing at all the smartphones we have today
Bak! than*
XX Perez remember when we had smart phones. Those things were so primitive, these holograms are awesome.
Man..!! Love your videos, just finished watching all of them.
You are making HISTORY here. Keep it up.
"My dream system would integrate voice mail" Okay "email" Okay "fax" Wait, what? "It would have one, maybe two buttons" We're still working on that one. Mine has 3 buttons: power/lock, volume up, and volume down.
Elvis S dont forget the porn. that i want to wacth porn whenever i want. lol
What the obsession with no buttons? Buttons have their advantages.
IKR?
It's crazy that this was pretty much the same idea behind the iPhone.
I feel like the biggest difference between this and the first iPhone is just that technology had advanced enough to execute it in a more accessible and appealing way. And that didn't really come from apple either. A lot of the technology just advanced over time, and came from research done either publicly or by other companies.
hmmmm... Took almost 6 minutes to get to the point. Takes talent.
There's nothing wrong with showing some history before getting to the main subject for context.
Endelig Gnist 3 mins 45 seconds
Endelig Gnist. takes more talent to be a jackass
1:27 caption below the video. Just why didn't he crop that out?
Not just the phone, your content delivery style has come a long way as well.
Theodore Paraskevakos is 100% Greek name. Not only of Greek descent but Greek.
mlazos Your point?
sta @@@ mas
mlazos f16 noob
Wow this is a very well made video. Keep the viewer interested. Keep it up man!
In the more traditional smartphone sense. I had a windows phone years before iPhone was even thought of.
amen to that bro! i still use nokia e90, n900, and now lumia640xl
3165dwayne. sidekick nokia was fuckin advanced as fuck good times
Just wanted to say that your videos are awesome! You earned yourself another subscriber.
Imagine if we brought an iPhone 11 or an iPad back to 1992, they would be f***ing ecstatic
or honestly, any modern cellphone
Coldfuiston is the most throughly informative tech channel n youtube
13 years? Windows Mobile had phones identical to the iPhone less than ten years later. You can't look up the world smart phone anymore but you can look up PDA phone since that'd what we call it in retrospect. They were exactly the same as what we have no and even in some ways more advanced. The only difference was that instead of the face of the device being a capacitive screen it was s resistive screen.
I had the HTC Athena which was pretty much exactly like the Samsung note back in 2007. It had a huge touch screen in front, a front facing camera for video chat and a stylus for writing and sketching. It was also an amazing GPS navigation device and ran hundreds of thousands of windows ce apps, even bit torrent and Winamp. It was incredible
That's why I unsubscribed from this channel ages ago. The guy is too in love with Apple and that bias shows through and ruins just about anything trying to be presented. Like this video. The video is well made, and bothers to try and present a fact, but then ignores a huge chunk of information to give some pointless further glorification toward Apple. Like we're supposed to just conveniently believe nothing happened from the actual first touch screen "smart" phone by IBM until Apple came along in 2007? Like you mentioned lots of resistive screen PDA's and such existed throughout those 13 years. I mean this could have been a really interesting educational video. But yeah, skips over lots to give Apple further glory.
Excellent video! The IBM mob looks to me more like a phablet. BTW the first fax was developed after the telegraph about 150 years ago!
but having hardware buttons on a phone is a plus (hardware home (, back and recent for android) buttons)
+STcraft You're forgetting the home button on the iPhone, which has always been a hardware button.
I was always a fan of hardware keyboards, but I guess I was one of the only ones. The Keyboard on the first Droid was my favorite.
Keep the good work going! We love you contents
The guy talking about his daughters drawing at 2:51 is totally lying.
hahaha because that was you definetly
I love your videos!
When you asked what was the first smartphone, I said the O2 XDA (a phone I had back in the day)....but looks like I was off by about 8 years :-)
NONONO - wait!
No more 13 years - see Nokia Communicator! and other devices so update that video
Thank you mate! Really enjoying your videos!
Before people start calling me names - Read this carefully and think about what I am about to say.
I Started crying at the end of this video. Just to think about how privileged we are to have come so far and how privileged we are to benefit from the awesome technology we have today. Think about it - What would you be doing right now if you didn't have the technological medium to be watching this video and reading my comment?
Answer that honestly, and then think about how technology benefits us everyday.
• Ease of communication (How else would you find your fiends in a massive crowded city filled with Hundreds of Thousands of people?)
• Educational Benefits - Did this video Educate you? - I certainly learnt something from this video.
• And many more.
I hope this opened your mind a little bit.
This is why I cried.
Technology is the future, and this is just the beginning.
- If you can get rid of all your mental filters and preconceptions - You can expand your mind to a whole new sphere of possibility
You good?
STiCKxaH Not to be a buzzkill. but that argument holds in every era, the period is just getting shorter. 50 years ago we could say the same about television (that was magical at the time). 100 years ago we could say that about telephones (talking with someone on the other side of the country?!?). Hell, even electricity. We've also had that transition in transportation with cars, trains... etc.
Not to mention the amazing insights of Newton and many other scientists who figured out so many important things hundreds of years ago, or the Greek who laid the foundation of mathematics thousands of years ago. The Egyptians who pioneered architecture and construction techniques... Not to mention the revolutions caused by the first civilizations , or even earlier, the first farmers.
All of these people in history had things to be proud of. They've all been able to look back and think that they are oh-so advanced compared to those who came before them. It is amazing indeed how far we've come, but now imagine what could be possible in the next 1000 years. Keep in mind, science really only has existed for 400 years. Everything we figured out before that was a lucky guess. Only recently have we really been able to _predict_ the future using the scientific method. We're only a small link in a very long chain. People in the future will laugh at our technology just like we laugh at carvings in stone tablets.
Soo my point is... relax. Have some perspective. Let's not feel privileged for the technology we have, let's instead focus on pushing that technology as far as we can for the generations to come. It's our duty to be a strong link in the chain.
Niosus totally nailed it .
err
• Ease of communication (How else would you find your fiends in a massive crowded city filled with Hundreds of Thousands of people?)
Call them or, as i spend more time with them, there is a good chance i know where they will be aka there routine.
• Educational Benefits - Did this video Educate you? - I certainly learnt something from this video - read a book you can learn a lot more. Or go find something out yourself, better the human race rather than just absorbing things....
• And many more - ditto
Can you tell i was around before the internet / smart phones were so mainstream
You're like Shaun from the institute
I wonder why the HandSpring Tréo Smartphone is seldom mentioned running Palm o/s it was superb. I still have mine it was fast for 2002/03 was touch screen with stylus, apps etc LONG before apple came on the scene. They get plaudits but Tréo was the original proper Smartphone.
Enjoy your videos really well made. Blessings from Glasgow Scotland. Gary.
Apple never claimed to be first, they invented a bunch of stuff to make modern smartphones work.
Blackberry was massive before iphone, multi touch changed that.
Its crazy how ahead of its time that phone was.
If we didn't care about GUI & apps they would be so different now
Zoran Zivanovic Except they didn't invent anything, Apple got Foxconn to put together a few parts from Samsung and Texas instruments and called it an iPhone. Meanwhile Nokia was already doing the same thing just in a different form factor.
Grymyrk possibly the stupidest logic I've read in a while, you win the internet today! 😂😂😂
Zoran Zivanovic What logic? I'm telling you what happened....
Grymyrk exactly, what logic?.
I'm not getting drawn into this.
Zoran Zivanovic Because your argument makes no sense.
Love your videos. This is just brilliant
lol I'm watching on a smartphone xD
Also the Ericsson R380 was the first phone to be marketed as "smartphone" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_R380
apple might have kinda boosted smartphones to even be a thing Android company perfected it though
Perfected? I think that's highly subjective.
Brad I don't think your opinion is valid.
JetpacksWasYes Elaborate?
"perfected it" oh my god 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Man, just stop 😂😂😂😂😂
Samsung =/= Android. It's like saying Toshiba is Windows.
I bought this phone when it was launched and I still have the phone to this day. I love it. Even now. I had a 500mb pcmcia memory card and it cost 400 dollars then. The phone was around 1200 dollars and I purchased it from Bellsouth Mobility.
why are you not buying this advanced tech in 1992?!
I was 6 in 1992, sorry :-/
Love your videos man.
a smartphone in 1992??!!!😲😲😲
You made a big jump from IBM device to iPhone. I had a Sony Ericsson in 2003 with all major office apps, games, music etc
ibm simon works better that low spec android phones
Man...I didn't have my first cell phone 'till 2007, when I turned 19, it wasn't that my parents or I couldn't afford one before, I just didn't care that much and didn't have much of a developed social life until that age (terrible I know), I got my first smartphone after researching a lot and already being a technology geek (gaming consoles and PC) without that much money in my childhood, I got a Galaxy S2, finally PC-like features on smartphones were evolved enough for me to want one (also first time having proper internet in a phone for me).
I actually want one lol
And here I am decades later watching this with a no bezel, in display fingerprint sensor, camera cutout, pocket computer. Its f**king insane how much technology evolves.
Wew big difference from then to 2019
STOP SHOWING UP EVERWHERE WTF WHO ARE YOU I SEE YOU SO MANY TIMES
another justin Y. wannabe lol
Learned a new thing today!! Thanks buddy
I like iOS
+MrBlueSnowman I like android. You know the better company. The one thats actually working with other companies to improve the mobile Industry instead of cutting off the other companies and thinking there better. The one that has more than 2* the devices that apple has. The one that has to deal with apple copying their ideas. I could go on.
+Tristan Hollis I like your debating skill. You brought up some good points and I have nothing against any os. If it makes you feel any better too, I like android as well (but maybe in the future it'll be a bit smoother) :)
MrBlueSnowman Ya android is a little trippy but they patched most of the stuff and have the minor problems to fix.
+Tristan Hollis I couldn't agree more!
+ThatSaneGuy NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
the subtitles were showing you are watching cold piece in pd instead of coldfustion tv in the starting 😂😂😂
Another great video. Phone technology has come a long way.
I really enjoyed this, keep up the good work!
love your sound man
another awesome video with some great information.
Can someone send me a link to the commerical's that start playing at 4:48
I have seen that CES and it is amazing. Nintendos Virtual boy, TVs and other bits that didn't take off at the time but are now coming to their own.
Nintendos Virtual boy O___O
Your voice is very soft and calming. I'm all zen now. haha
I learn alot from your vids keep doing it thank-you
fuck, the production and effort to make these videos looks so good. Props to this guy...
Very interesting, thank you for the video.