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Re:Google Calendar to end SMS notification on June 27th by sildur on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:33PM (#9625583)
"SMS notifications launched before smartphones were available."

Google Calendar became available on April 13, 2006. I got a Nokia smartphone in 2002. They were available way before 2006.

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Re:Google Calendar to end SMS notification on June 27th by rakoo on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:51PM (#9625709)
Correction: SMS notifications launched before the smartphone was available.

Did we call them smartphones before the iPhone was out ?

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Re:Google Calendar to end SMS notification on June 27th by Jtsummers on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:59PM (#9625757)
Wikipedia says the first use of the term was in 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Early_years

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Re:Google Calendar to end SMS notification on June 27th by imron on Friday May 29, 2015 @01:14PM (#9625861)
Absolutely.

https://www.google.com/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&tbm=n...

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Re:Google Calendar to end SMS notification on June 27th by Nicholas_C on Friday May 29, 2015 @01:16PM (#9625870)
I think we called Blackberry phones and Sony Ericsson phones "smartphones", which existed before iPhones.
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