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At one point, Nokia spent more on R&D than any other company in the world. They were always the innovators. Unlike some companies who try to stifle innovation (microsoft) or rebadge innovations (apple)
 
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
They gave us the first smartphones.
Period.
There. Corrected it to ya.
Disagree with the correction. Palm and Handspring produced very decent smartphones.

The priority claim can be argued as well. According to Wikipedia, Symbian was conceived in 1998. It was previously known as EPOC since 1997. Palm OS was conceived in 1996. The first Symbian phone was released in Q2 2002, same as the first Palm OS phone.

Originally Posted by Dared View Post
At one point, Nokia spent more on R&D than any other company in the world. They were always the innovators. Unlike some companies who try to stifle innovation (microsoft) or rebadge innovations (apple)
There you go. Being the first is not always what it's cracked up to be
 
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
The priority claim can be argued as well. According to Wikipedia, Symbian was conceived in 1998. It was previously known as EPOC since 1997.
Psion became Symbian Ltd in 1998 but EPOC was on the Psion Organisers in the late eighties.

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
The first Symbian phone was released in Q2 2002, same as the first Palm OS phone.
I don't know if it was the first Symbian phone ever released but the NOKIA Communicator 9210 was a Symbian device and was released in 2000.
 
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Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
I don't know if it was the first Symbian phone ever released but the NOKIA Communicator 9210 was a Symbian device and was released in 2000.
Nokia released Smartphones even before: They used PEN/GEOS as theyr operating system as of 1996. You might argue what defined a smartphone back than, but those models hat a web browser and (other than the first iPhone) could run third party software. That was probably very close to the "full computer in your pocket" vision that defines the term smartphone for me.

(plus, it had a hardware keyboard...)
 
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Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
Psion became Symbian Ltd in 1998 but EPOC was on the Psion Organisers in the late eighties.

I don't know if it was the first Symbian phone ever released but the NOKIA Communicator 9210 was a Symbian device and was released in 2000.
The Ericsson R380 came out at the bgining of 2000, the 9210 at the end.
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Because they used to make high functional smartphones. Not huge screens with colored squares.
 
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