World's first smartphone - a $900 clunky IBM Simon mobile phone - turned 20 on Saturday. While the term smartphone wasn't coined when IBM Simon was released, it was the first device that combined the functions of a phone and a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), making it the first known member of the smartphone family, as we know it today. Simon came with a black and white 4.5-inch×1.4-inch (114mm×36mm) LCD display with 293x160 pixels resolution and touch support with stylus, but had modest specs compared to modern-day smartphones. IBM Simon was powered by a x86-compatible 16-bit Vadem processor clocked at a mere 16MHz. It came with 1MB RAM, 1MB storage and ran 'Zaurus OS.'
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