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Assersoft on Twitter: "The first commercially available device that could be properly referred to as a "smartphone" began as a prototype called " Angler" developed by Canova in 1992 while at IBM and
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TIL that the first smartphone, an IBM prototype codenamed Angler, debuted in 1992--three years before the word 'smartphone' was invented. It sent emails, ran apps, and had a working touch screen. :
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