Smartphones set to become the fastest spreading technology in human history

So wrong, it took more than a decade. Or they need to invent some new word for devices like iOS/Android, because "smartphone" predates them.<p>NVIDIA for example invented a word "superphone", for devices using Tegra3 SoC.

Just bad reporting. Despite what the world might like to believe smart phones existed before the iPhone, before 2007. Really, as early as 2000.<p>Just as an example, windows mobile was really terrible. But it did provide a web browser, data connection, installable apps, email, calendar, etc.. in your pocket.. on your phone.<p>It was expensive and Apple certainly did it better... but this articles metrics are disingenuous as hell.

So the fastest adopted technology in human history is one that allows us to yak incessantly, send banal ill grammared missives to each other, generate fart noises, and watch videos of kitties doing silly things. The future is going to be so awesome.<p>I see TV is a close 2nd there, so you know, there's a pattern here.