Touted as the world’s first smartphone, the Simon Personal Communicator was originally announced on November 23, 1992, at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas, with the code name, Angler.
Handheld personal digital assistant, retrospectively regarded as the world’s first smartphone due to the similarities of its features and capabilities with the present-day smartphone.
Although it debuted in November 1993, a year after its prototype was announced, Simon Personal Communicator was available for public sales on August 15, 1994.