Here’s a look at some of Simon’s history. IBM and BellSouth first showed Simon off in late 1992. It was code-named “Angler” and was unveiled at the fall COMDEX convention in Vegas ...

From IBM’s November 1993 press release: According to BellSouth Cellular Corp.’s product development manager Rich Guidotti, Simon represents the first real personal communicator because it was ...

The device in question—the result of a collaboration between IBM and wireless carrier BellSouth—was a mobile phone known as Simon. Like all 1994 cellphones, it was a brick-like behemoth.

The IBM Simon was the first smartphone ever. It even had a touch screen! Today we live in a world filled with quad-core smartphones and handsets with 1080p screens, but it certainly didn’t start ...

BellSouth is expected to sell its Simon for $1,000 – about $400 more than the Newton, which doesn’t include a cellular phone and $800 less than the AT&T; Eo, which does. Locally, IBM is ...

London: The first ever smartphone - a $900 clunky IBM Simon mobile phone - has turned 20. The phone with a battery life of one hour was developed by IBM and the American cellular company BelSelf ...

Terms weren’t disclosed. IBM, the world’s largest provider of computer services, will also manage two BellSouth data centers in Atlanta and Miami. The companies will market each other’s ...

1994’s Simon was the first rough draft of a device ... I wasn’t expected to give points for sheer audacity. Nor did we cut IBM and BellSouth any slack for the severe constraints they had ...

To mark its 20th birthday, the IBM Simon has now been put up on display at the London Science Museum. It may be hard to believe but there were smartphones in the world before Android and the ...