when was the first smartphone released in the us
Smartphone Smartphones were still rare outside of Japan until the introduction of the Danger Hiptop in 2002, which saw moderate success among U.S. consumers as the T-Mobile Sidekick. Later, in the mid-2000s, business users in the U.S. started to adopt devices based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile, and then BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion. American users popularized the term "CrackBerry" in 2006 due to the BlackBerry's addictive nature.[22] Outside of the U.S. and Japan, Nokia was seeing success with its Symbian-based smartphones, the business-oriented Eseries[23] and entertainment-focused Nseries.