The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is a smartphone that was released on August 29, 2012. It was an updated version of the Samsung Galaxy Note I in that specific line of Samsung smartphones. However, the history of it actually falls further back in time.
At first there was actually no such thing as a smartphone. There were cellular phones but they only included basic functions such as receiving calls and dialing calls. Cellular phones that incorporated the use of PDA features were only introduced to the market in 1992 by IBM.
They were actually brought in to the market and made available for the first time for consumers to use on August 16, 1994 by BellSouth. It was known as the Simon Personal Communicator. This was the first device that could be coined as a smartphone.
It actually was touch screen and could send and receive emails, facsimiles, and pages. It also included such applications as a clock, calendar, calculator, address book, scheduler, electronic note pad, and a touch screen keyboard.
In 1996, the next device that could be categorized as a smartphone was released by Nokia, known as the Nokia 9000. It was the combination of a PDA from HP and a hand-held computer style phone.This time it included the QWERTY keyboard and web-browsing features.
Around the later 1990's, People started to carry a cellular phone and a PDA to come close to matching the capabilities of what is known as a smartphone today. It was these two systems and devices that later on were put together to create the modern, high-end smartphones today.
The first official smartphone of the US was released by Verizon in 2001, the Kyocera 6035. It was from this point on that the consumers really started grasping the smartphone technology and it all took off for that market.
Soon the Android market was launched and Samsung took hold of it and started launching their own line of smartphones.