<P> In early 2007 , Apple Inc. introduced the iPhone , the first smartphone to use a capacitive multi-touch interface . ( A year prior the LG Prada was the first mobile phone released with a large capacitive touchscreen , but it was not a smartphone , and its screen was not multi-touch . ) The iPhone was notable for abandoning the use of a stylus , keyboard , or keypad typical for smartphones at the time , in favor of a large touchscreen for direct finger input as its main means of interaction . Though one columnist described the initial iPhone as `` not a smartphone by conventional terms , being that a smartphone is a platform device that allows software to be installed , '' the opening of Apple 's App Store a year later not only satisfied this requirement , but it became the new main paradigm for smartphone software distribution and installation . </P>
<P> In early 2007 , Apple Inc. introduced the iPhone , the first smartphone to use a capacitive multi-touch interface . ( A year prior the LG Prada was the first mobile phone released with a large capacitive touchscreen , but it was not a smartphone , and its screen was not multi-touch . ) The iPhone was notable for abandoning the use of a stylus , keyboard , or keypad typical for smartphones at the time , in favor of a large touchscreen for direct finger input as its main means of interaction . Though one columnist described the initial iPhone as `` not a smartphone by conventional terms , being that a smartphone is a platform device that allows software to be installed , '' the opening of Apple 's App Store a year later not only satisfied this requirement , but it became the new main paradigm for smartphone software distribution and installation . </P>
when did the first touch screen smartphone come out
when did the first touch screen smartphone come out
2007
2007