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How Smartphones Changed the World

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August 15, 2016

Mobiles promised to change the world when they first came out. But it was the mix of phones and the internet that dialed up a new revolution in how we communicate. The Nokia Communicator - 20 years ago, it was the world's first smartphone to go on the market. But the real story is the app economy that sprung up around smartphones - 50 billion dollars and that's expected to double by 2020.

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