Today

Today, smartphones are still advancing with the Android and iPhone being the top paid brands in todays market. Although the Nokia Lumia 710 was the first nokia smartphone, it failed at being a game changer in the smartphone world. As smartphones advance, so do their features: cameras and mobile "skyping" has been enabled to almost every newly released smartphone with data plans. Every day as the world progresses, so will technology.

Apps !

2008: App Store

And phones change forever. Third-party apps make smart phones more versatile than ever imagined.

Apple launches software development kits to help developers embed free and paid apps on the iOS.

2007: iPhone & Android

     After five long years, came one of the biggest innovations in history.

The iPhone: First multi-touch smartphone that changes the category altogether. Sleek design with a single home button, users type into the screen.

The Android: A Linux-based operating system Google bought in 2005 comes out with the first Android-phone : HTC Dream. The open-source system eventually powers Samsung, Motorola, LG and other brands.

2002: BlackBerry 5810

The first Blackberry, it set up all other business phones into motion. It set up instant access to your email one click away. This phone gained huge financial success with staff in senior management, making office communication far beyond easy.

1999: Kyocera VP-210

The world's first phone with a built-in camera comes from Japan, a company called Kyrocera.
It is meant for face-to-face communication so the lens is on the front of the camera. The click button is on the front of the phone so it's hard to capture anything but yourself.

1996: Nokia Communicator

The nokia communicator was noted for being one of the first flip open phones (called clamshell design) and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard. Other flip phones branched not longer after the nokia was released

World's first Smartphone

The first smartphone was released in 1993 by Samsung, the design was fairly simple. The full name was IBM Simon Personal Communicator. Simon is a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA rolled into one. With apps including calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail , and games. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2011/12/06/the-history-of-the-smartphone/