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A smartphone integrates a camera, a phone, a gps device and internet as well as being a phone and enabled communication by text, video and audio.

A device that combines all of this may have existed before but they failed in the fight for adoption by the masses. Innovation is theorized:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

What you need to make inventions into innovation is to make it accessible to people who expect products to just work. Innovation always faces resistance. The people who don’t want any change will always fight new stuff while early adopters will always try new things. The people in the middle are key. UX is a big part but also hardware and software that works without the need for tinkering is essential.

Ok. What is the topic? Innovation vs invention?

People on this app get personal so quickly its not fun. Been here a week and more hate hit me than in 12 years of reddit. Calm tf down.

Blackberry was not a smartphone in my opinion. You are right with the rest and you can consider blackberry a smartphone if you want to. We can have different opinions.

The iPhone transformed the world. Blackberry still innovativated Business phones but did not have the impact the iPhone had.

Innovation is making an invention into a successful product. Before iPhone there were no successful smartphones. Same with ipads.