By greatest invention I mean something that had big and positive influence.

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            4 months ago

            I totally agree. But the question was about inventions not mass adaption.

            That’s like saying Henry Ford invented the car because the Model T was the first widely available one.

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                4 months ago

                That’s going to be a tough one to call. Nokia Communicator had diary (calendar), web browsing and email features in the 90s. You could also tether off it, but it was dialup and most phones could do that.

                That was pretty much the definition of a smart phone at the time.

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            4 months ago

            It may depend on your culture, but Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones were both fairly common in business circles years before iPhones.

            The iPhone was an incremental advancement, not a major invention out of nowhere. The first iPhone was actually pretty crap compared to some models on the market. It wasn’t until the 3G model that iPhones took off.