Who invented the Smartphone?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Atomic Entertainment Group LLC

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0	Pts, hey, smarty pants, see if you can guess what I'm holding right now.
0:06.3	Ready?
0:07.0	It's small enough to easily fit in one hand, but has more computing power than the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle.
0:15.7	You know, just the first crude vehicle to land on the moon.
0:18.8	Roger that proceed with mission.
0:21.1	Can you guess what it is?
0:23.4	Did you say, a smartphone?
0:25.9	If so, you're right.
0:28.6	Congratulations.
0:30.1	Wait, you're not Siri.
0:31.6	How is my smartphone talking to me?
0:33.6	Because I'm smarter than a smartphone.
0:36.0	I'm a smarty phone.
0:37.8	Ah, of course. What else would you expect the trusty narrator to have?
0:41.7	And since everyone listening is a smarty pants, I think we're going to get along great.
0:47.3	Show of hands, how many of you use me to make phone calls, send text messages, play games on apps, watch videos, FaceTime Grandma and Grandpa, listen to music or your favorite podcast.
1:00.6	Too smarted.
1:02.6	And if you're too young to have or use a smartphone, I bet the adults in your life do.
1:08.2	And while it's true I have more computing power than the module used to land on the moon in
1:12.7	1969, I still have a lot of untapped potential. That's true, Smarty Phone. But before we talk about
1:25.6	the future, let's first discover the past. How and why were
1:29.8	smartphones invented? What came before smartphones? And just what makes them so smart? It's time for
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