Evolution of the Smartphone

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Smartphones are expected to eclipse PCs as the most common way to access the web next year, which is great because the PC would never fit in our pocket. Now, it’s time to take a look back at the evolution of smartphones; courtesy of the folks who brought you the world’s first Android and Windows phones.

  • http://www.facebook.com/adriancartago Adrian Cartago

    “All of the preceding stats were true except one.”? ummmmm… i think its the iPhone 5′s screen size almost as big as the HTC One X… hahahaha… not even close…

    • http://twitter.com/swallowyerpride luis v

      Exactly what I said when i read it

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1567763327 Alif Abdul Rahman

    Rofl! Apple map..

  • http://www.facebook.com/aging.cheese Paul Skowronski

    Has to be the “average smartphone usage triples to 150MB per month” claim. In 2011? Come on…

    • http://www.facebook.com/ES.KAY.WAN Danilo Santana Cruz

      Yeah its gotta be that one, I was already using 3GB last year, not counting wifi lol

  • http://twitter.com/SalmanNaseer Salman Naseer

    That was awesome! Always loved stories by HTC :)

  • http://twitter.com/alittleolder Stephan Klose

    it’s nice that you even mention apple.. but it would have been fair to put them in 2007 when they released what we now know as a smartphone.. and I am not an apple fan by any means but fair is fair

    • Joshhud

      they did. it says LG claims Apple stole the design from the prada

      • Harry Harrison

        a total copy. boo to apple.

    • http://twitter.com/intocad INtOcAd

      Smartphones equals android . Sorry

    • http://www.facebook.com/rdjakhangirov Rustam Djakhangirov

      They didn’t released the first smartphone. There were many smartphones with touch screens. They made the first cheap smartphone with the biggest screen in the market.

  • http://twitter.com/alittleolder Stephan Klose

    oh wait you did.. it was just a small post I missed it.. ok.. so this list is in order.. keep it up..

    • Joshhud

      ah nm then lol

  • Daniel Cabanaw

    What about the Palm Treo? That was a smartphone! Really it was!

    • http://twitter.com/LmtdSlip Christopher Mallardi

      Agreed. Treo was the killer platform for nearly two years. I had two of them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/soulb411 Bisola Babatunde

    htc is one of my most admired mobile phone companies and i will love to see them do great thing and even take over the whole mobile scene. they should take advantage of emerging markets to expand their reach cos they have great potentials.

    • http://www.facebook.com/rdjakhangirov Rustam Djakhangirov

      Agree with you. However, htc needs to develop technologies and not just consume them.

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  • http://www.dsaif.tk/ Saif

    Wow!

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  • Marsg

    HTC forgot to mention that they were also the first to introduce a 720p display smartphone and now a 1080p that’s has 1.5x the pixels of Apples retina.

  • Christian Magno

    Great little infographic, good job HTC!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ali.mazloum.1257 Ali Mazloum

    Waaaaw htc. I love your stories and your goods but sonu ericson was there in 2004 as a smart touch screen phone
    Iam a htc lover but fair is fair

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696112190 Ahmad Abdel-Aziz

    Wow Larry!! That was great!

    Interesting to learn how mobile internet traffic is now exceeding the whole internet traffic a decade ago!!

    Thanks for the journey …

  • samagon

    Ugh, one of the it guys in the web design company I worked at had a 9210, he was so proud he could bounce a service while drinking at the bar. 3 years later I was on xda downloading a skin for my winmo phone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/warren.woodhurst Warren Peace

      Mhm I know some of these words.

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  • xoj_21

    htc ur info is wrong, symbian and psion predates windows mobile..
    and symbian had most marketshare til 2011

  • http://twitter.com/agronomist83 CoolerThnYoBoyfriend

    Wow, no mention of Palm tho?

  • Harry Harrison

    the fact is, it can’t take you to Dulles airport taxi. v funny.

  • Dario Kršek-Novoselec

    where will we be for ten year .. ”i need a teleport” :)

  • AnGeLFaCe77

    HtC needs to put better radios and battery in their devices.

  • http://www.facebook.com/karan.marwha Karan Marwha

    That was awesome! Always loved stories by HTC :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/rdjakhangirov Rustam Djakhangirov

    Stunning Timeline with additional holy-war references :)
    Liked the writing style. You guys really know how to present the story

  • mgamerz

    No mention of Motorola? Seriously?