Evolution of Smartphones (PDA): Then to Now
For the last couple of years, a large number of corporate guys, professionals, common users have been buying “personal digital assistants,” mobile devices designed to make and simplify one’s daily life. Well, have you ever imagined how these devices developed to enhance so feature-loaded and robust?This article will give an idea of the journey of PDA so far. Let's get into it. In 1993, Apple brought Newton Message pad to the market: a type known as a Personal Digital Assistant, or PDA which had a black and white touchscreen. Also, it was the old made PDA to highlight handwriting recognition. Users wrote something on the screen, and their script was modified into text. The next evolution was also interesting when we stepped slowly into 1994. In 1994, IBM introduced Simon; the PDA to also operate as a telephone and first PDA to broadcast emails and accept faxes using the phone's data connection. Palm Computing introduced the Palm Pilot 1000 in 1996, where they used a simplifi
