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IBM's Simon Personal Communicator (1992) is widely regarded as the first smartphone — fifteen years before the iPhone.

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IBM's Simon (1992) is widely seen as the first smartphone — a touchscreen phone with apps, email and a calendar, arriving fifteen years before the iPhone.

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IBM'in Simon Personal Communicator'ı (1992), iPhone'dan on beş yıl önce ortaya çıkan ilk akıllı telefon olarak yaygın biçimde kabul edilir.
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IBM'in Simon'ı (1992), yaygın olarak ilk akıllı telefon sayılır — uygulamaları, e-postası ve takvimi olan dokunmatik ekranlı bir telefon; iPhone'dan on beş yıl önce geldi.

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