In its Mapress release, RIM stressed that its 5810 smartphone "integrates the award-winning features of the secure BlackBerry wireless email solution with the convenience of built-in phone. The 58 smartphones combined wireless phone capabilities with wireless data services offered by RIM's pagers, services such as email and anytime, anywhere access to the Internet. It was a variant of the 5810 that operated on different frequencies. The 5820 was introduced in UK a few months earlier and, eventually, was offered world wide. The 5810 was introduced in the US on Maduring Comdex in Chicago (the smartphone was offered in Canada on Rogers AT&T Wireless in April 2002). The first two smartphones in what would become a long and successful line of RIM smartphones were the BlackBerry 58.
The success of these devices spelled the end of pagers ad PDAs in the workplace. However, its high price, short battery life, and far from convenient data entry led to poor sales.īy the turn of the century, several companies, including Research in Motion (RIM), introduced their first smartphones. Introduced in 1995, Simon handheld was a cellular phone, a pager and a PDA.
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (or IBM Simon) was the first such communications package - the first "smartphone". The inconvenience of carrying all such devices to manage information and communication made the convergence of technologies and functionalities represented by these different devices into one communications package inevitable. At that time, it was not unusual for a person to simultaneously carry a mobile phone, a pager, and personal digital assistant (PDA). In the last decade of the 20th century, rapidly developing wireless communications infrastructure introduced millions of users to wireless data and voice communications using pagers and cellular phones (cellphones).
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