The Rise and Fall of the Simon Personal Communicator: A Cautionary Tale
In the mid-1990s, IBM and BellSouth collaborated on a revolutionary device that promised to change the face of personal communication – the Simon Personal Communicator. This touchscreen phone-cum-PDA was launched in 1994, boasting an array of features that would later become standard issue on modern smartphones. So, why did the Simon phone fail to make … Read more