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What exactly is the formula for "the best" smartphone? Well… let’s ask the first smartphone there was — the IBM Simon. It was released way back in 1994 — and it was actually called a Personal Communicator.

It was the first touchscreen Personal Digital Assistant that also functioned as a phone. It had an innovative spirit. It had features you simply couldn’t get in another single device. It dared to ask the question “what ...