Weekly Authority: Edition #157 – Android Authority
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⚡ Welcome back to The weekly authority, the Android authority Newsletter with the most important Android and tech news of the week. Serving the 157th edition, right here …
🎮 Paula Beaton takes over the reins from now on and gives Tristan Rayner more time to play on his new PS5. Still can’t wait to get my hands on one!
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Our own article by Robert Triggs about How Android became Android got us thinking about the words we use for the technology we all rely on – and we asked ourselves, when did we first use the word “smartphone”?
- Although most of us didn’t use or hear the word “smartphone” until Apple launched the first generation iPhone in 2007, the first real smartphone landed 15 years earlier, in 1992 – the year AOL was listed on the stock exchange went (CNBC).
- Simon Personal Communicator from IBM, or “Simon”, a hybrid cell phone and PDA, was a not-so-portable building block for $ 899 (around $ 1,435 today, for which – almost – you could pack a new Galaxy Z Fold 3) (Business Insider).
- With Simon’s 4.5 x 1.4 inch monochrome LCD touchscreen and stylus, you can send e-mails and faxes or call someone with a number code or an SMS on your handy Porta stone. Great. (r / 90s)
- September 8th: Lenovo Tech World 2021
- 13.september: Android12?
- September 15th: Xiaomi launch event @ 5AM PT / 8AM ET / 1PM BST (possibly Xiaomi Mi 12, Mi 11T, Mi Pad 5, Mi Note 11)
- Also in September: Up to three Apple events? (iPhone 13, Watch Series 7, MacBooks, AirPods 3, more)
Tech tweet from the week
First: @Gallowboob is back and this time coining the term “brailing”. It turns out that in Naples, Italy, there is a railing on a pavilion that uses the Braille describing the view for the blind. Do you wonder what it says?
Second, what’s new? Oh, not much, just that Rat plays harmonica. I don’t know why, but it will definitely brighten your day.
– Living Morganism (@ok_freundin) – August 27, 2021
Have a great week!
Paula Beaton, text editor
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