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Forty years of pocketable computers. From the Apple Newton's misread ink to a foldable device with a six-billion-parameter on-device model. Sixteen pages.

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Forty years of pocketable computers. From the Apple Newton's misread ink to a foldable device with a six-billion-parameter on-device model. Sixteen pages. Key sections include: Mobile Computing.; Pocket computing precursors.; Newton MessagePad.; Jeff Hawkins's Palm.; Push email and the executive thumb.; "An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator."; Android.; What changed.; The SoC.; Generations..

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01Mobile Computing.
02Pocket computing precursors.
03Newton MessagePad.
04Jeff Hawkins's Palm.
05Push email and the executive thumb.
06"An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator."
07Android.
08What changed.
09The SoC.
10Generations.
11The App Store economy.
12What's next?

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01Mobile Computing.
02Pocket computing precursors.
03Newton MessagePad.
04Jeff Hawkins's Palm.
05Push email and the executive thumb.
06"An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator."
07Android.
08What changed.
09The SoC.
10Generations.
11The App Store economy.
12What's next?

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Deck 09 / Mobile ComputingVol. II · 2026
Mobile
Computing.
Forty years of pocketable computers. From the Apple Newton's misread ink to a foldable device with a six-billion-parameter on-device model. Sixteen pages.

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IndexSections
Cover
Pre-history
Newton
Palm
BlackBerry
iPhone
Android
Specs
SoC
Network
Apps
Diagram
Watch
Glossary
Future

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Before the smartphone

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1973–1992Prehistory
Pocket computing precursors.
Martin Cooper places the first handheld cellular call in New York on April 3, 1973, on a Motorola DynaTAC prototype. The IBM Simon (1994) is widely cited as the first smart phone — touchscreen, email, calendar, fax, $899 retail.
HP-65 (1974) — first programmable handheld; Psion Organiser (1984) — first true PDA; Atari Portfolio (1989) — DOS in your hand.
Tally
Cellular subscribers, worldwide:
YearSubs (million)
199011
2000740
20105,400
20208,300
20258,900

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Newton MessagePad.

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1993Apple Newton MessagePad
Launched August 1993. ARM 610 at 20 MHz, 640 KB RAM, 4 MB ROM. NewtonOS introduced "soup" object storage and the famously-mocked handwriting recognizer. Discontinued by Steve Jobs on his return in 1998.
Legacy: ARM was a Newton co-investment (Apple, Acorn, VLSI, 1990) and would go on to power every modern smartphone.
Spec card
CPUARM 610 @ 20 MHz
RAM640 KB
StoragePCMCIA
Screen336×240 mono
Price$699 USD

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Lessons from a wood block

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1996Palm Pilot
Jeff Hawkins's Palm.
Hawkins carried a wooden block in his pocket for weeks, "tapping it" with a stylus, before specifying the Palm Pilot's dimensions. Released March 1996. Graffiti unistroke recognition, four buttons, clip-on cradle for HotSync.
Why Palm worked
Did one thing well — sync a calendar & contacts to the desktop.
Cheap ($299).
HotSync was reliable.
Treo (2002) was the first widely successful smartphone-PDA hybrid.

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Crackberry

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1999–2008BlackBerry
Push email and the executive thumb.
Research In Motion's 850 (1999) and 957 (2000) introduced reliable two-way push email over Mobitex. The 7230 (2003) added a color screen; the 8700 (2005) introduced QWERTY that the world had to acknowledge. By 2008, BlackBerry had ~50% of the U.S. smartphone market.

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"An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator."

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January 9, 2007iPhone
Steve Jobs at Macworld 2007. 3.5" 320×480 capacitive touchscreen, no stylus, full WebKit browser, multi-touch pinch and zoom. ARM11 412 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 4/8/16 GB flash. EDGE-only on launch (3G arrived in 2008).
The App Store launched July 2008 with 500 apps; by 2026 there are over 2 million.
Inflection
The smartphone went from a niche enterprise tool to the dominant computing device on Earth in roughly seven years.

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Android.

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September 23, 2008Android & OHA
Andy Rubin's Android Inc. acquired by Google in July 2005. Android 1.0 shipped on the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) in October 2008 — physical keyboard, trackball, 3.2" screen. Open Handset Alliance, AOSP, an open Linux kernel + Apache-licensed user space. Today: ~70% of smartphones globally.
Architecture
+----------------------------+
| Apps (Java/Kotlin) |
+----------------------------+
| Application Framework |
+----------------------------+
| ART runtime · libraries |
+----------------------------+
| HAL |
+----------------------------+
| Linux kernel |
+----------------------------+

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What changed.

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20 yearsHow specs moved
YearFlagshipCPURAMCell
2003Nokia 6600ARM9 104 MHz6 MB2.5G GPRS
2007iPhoneARM11 412 MHz128 MB2.75G EDGE
2010iPhone 4A4 1 GHz512 MB3G HSPA
2014iPhone 6A8 dual 1.4 GHz1 GB4G LTE
2020iPhone 12A14 6-core4 GB5G NR
2025iPhone 17 ProA19 Pro 6-core12 GB5G SA, mmWave

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The SoC.

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System-on-a-ChipThe mobile silicon era
Apple's A4 (2010) was the first Apple-designed mobile SoC. By A11 (2017) it included a Neural Engine; by A17 Pro (2023) it was 3 nm. Qualcomm Snapdragon, MediaTek Dimensity, Samsung Exynos, and Google Tensor compete in the Android ecosystem.
Modern mobile SoCs integrate: CPU clusters (P + E cores), GPU, ISP, NPU, DSP, secure enclave, modem, codec blocks. The "phone" is mostly a battery, a screen, and an antenna stack around an SoC.
Block diagram

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Generations.

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Air interface1G → 5G
GenYearTechNotable
1G1979 / '83NTT, AMPS analogVoice only
2G1991GSM (TDMA), CDMA (IS-95)SMS, GPRS, EDGE
3G2001UMTS / W-CDMA~2 Mb/s, mobile data viable
4G2009LTE (OFDMA)~100 Mb/s, all-IP
5G2019NR, mmWave~1 Gb/s, ultra-low latency
6G~2030sub-THz, AI-nativeStandardization underway

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The App Store economy.

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App storesDistribution
Apple's App Store opened July 10, 2008; Google's Android Market (later Play) launched October 2008. By 2024 the global app economy was estimated at over $500B in consumer spend. The 2024 EU Digital Markets Act forced Apple to allow alternative iOS app marketplaces in Europe — the first major change to the iOS distribution model since 2008.

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Stack diagramHow a tap reaches a server

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Reading

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Watch thisRecommended
2007 Macworld keynote.
Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore.org.
BlackBerry rise & fall — Losing the Signal, McNish & Silcoff.
Watch: android history

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GlossaryDefinitions
TermMeaning
SoCSystem-on-a-chip; many computer subsystems on one die.
HALHardware abstraction layer; in Android, the bridge between framework and drivers.
SIM / eSIMSubscriber Identity Module; eSIM is provisioned electronically.
NPUNeural processing unit; on-device AI accelerator.
OTAOver-the-air update — the standard since iOS 5 (2011).
VoLTEVoice over LTE; voice calls as IP traffic.

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What's next?

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Open problemsPost-smartphone
On-device foundation models & private inference.
Wearable/glasses form factor (Meta Ray-Ban, Apple Vision, etc.).
Foldables and rollables (Galaxy Z Fold, Huawei Mate XT trifold).
Direct-to-cell satellite (Starlink Direct, AST SpaceMobile).
Repairability & right-to-repair regulation.
One number
7.2B
active smartphone subscriptions worldwide, 2025 (Ericsson).
~5h
average daily smartphone use among adults, U.S. (data.ai 2024).
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