TOP 10 | MOBILE BRANDS
MOBILE MAGAZINE TAKES A LOOK AT THE 10 MOST IMPACTFUL BRANDS IN THE MOBILE SPACE
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“ An iPod , a phone , and an Internet communicator ,” said Steve Jobs , standing on a plain black stage at the 2007 Macworld conference . “ Are you getting it ? These are not three separate devices . This is one device .” Although technically the title of first smartphone is held by the IBM Simon Personal Communicator , which hit the market as early as November 1992 , the first generation iPhone is commonly held up as the flashpoint for the smartphone age . While it looks rudimentary in comparison with today ’ s flagship devices ( it only had a 2-megapixel camera , a 3.5 inch screen and a mere 128MB of DRAM ) the iPhone laid the foundations for almost every successive generation of smartphone . Along with Alexander Graham Bell ’ s ( or Antonio Meucci , if you believe his patent claim ) telephone and ARPANET , the smartphone is unquestionably one of the most impactful inventions of the past hundred years .
JULY 2020