the first touchscreen phone came out in 1994.
the first touchscreen phone came out in 1994.
when did the first touchscreen phone come out?
1994
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a slate is a smartphone form with few to no physical buttons, instead relying upon a touchscreen and an onscreen keyboard. the first commercially available touchscreen phone was a brick phone, the ibm simon personal communicator, released in 1994. the iphone, which was released in 2007, is largely responsible for the influence and achievement of this design as it is currently conceived.









































some unusual "slate" designs include that of lg new chocolate (bl40), or the samsung galaxy round, which is curved.









































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in 1990, hcil demonstrated a touchscreen slider, which was later cited as prior art in the lock screen patent litigation between apple and other touchscreen mobile phone vendors (in relation to ).









































in 1991–1992, the sun star7 prototype pda implemented a touchscreen with inertial scrolling. in 1993, ibm released the ibm simon the first touchscreen phone.









































an early attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was sega's intended successor to the game gear, though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive cost of touchscreen technology in the early 1990s.
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