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Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.
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The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email and PDA features.
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Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OS mobile operating system.
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First Windows CE Handheld PC devices are introduced.
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Nokia S40 OS is officially introduced along with the Nokia 7110
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Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380.
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The Kyocera 6035 is the first smartphone with Palm OS.
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Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.
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BlackBerry releases its first smartphone.
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Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first internet tablet N770.
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Apple iPhone with iOS is introduced as an iPhone, "mobile phone" and "internet communicator.
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Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc
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OHA releases Android 1.0 with the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the first Android phone.
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Palm introduces webOS with the Palm Pre. By 2012 webOS devices were no longer sold.
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Samsung announces the Bada OS with the introduction of the Samsung S8500.
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Windows Phone OS phones are released but are not compatible with the previous Windows Mobile OS.
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MeeGo the first mobile Linux, combining Maemo and Moblin, is introduced with the Nokia N9, a collaboration of Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation
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Samsung, Intel and the Linux Foundation announced that their efforts will shift from Bada, MeeGo to Tizen during 2011 and 2012.
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Mer project was announced, centered around an ultra-portable Linux + HTML5/QML/JavaScript Core for building products with, derived from the MeeGo codebase
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Mozilla announced in July 2012 that the project previously known as "Boot to Gecko" was now Firefox OS and had several handset OEMs on board.
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Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch, a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.
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BlackBerry released their new operating system for smartphones and tablets, BlackBerry 10.