The first smartphone was Nokia 9210, launched as early as 2001. It was
followed by Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson P800, and the smartphones of
Motorola and Siemens. Smartphones quickly became popular while sales
dropped for PDAs. In February 2005, Sony stopped selling PDAs.
Smartphones represented 3,7% of all
cellphones sold in 2004, and 9% in 2006, with 90 million smartphones
sold for one billion cellphones.
January 2003 > The Public Library of Science, a publisher of free high-
quality online journals
In early 2003, the Public Library of Science (PloS) -- founded in
October 2000 - created a non-profit scientific and medical publishing
venture to provide scientists and physicians with free high-quality,
high-profile online journals in which to publish their work. The
journals were PloS Biology (launched in 2003), PLoS Medicine (2004),
PLoS Genetics (2005), PLoS Computational Biology (2005), PLoS Pathogens
(2005), PLoS Clinical Trials (2006), and PLoS Neglected Tropical
Diseases (2007), the first scientific journal on this topic. All PloS
articles are freely available online, on the websites of PLoS and of
PubMed Central, the public archive run by the National Library of
Medicine (United States). The articles can be freely redistributed and
reused under a Creative Commons license, including for translations, as
long as the author(s) and source are cited.
February 2003 > A quote by Nicolas Pewny, consultant in electronic
publishing
A bookseller, publisher -- he founded the small publishing house Le
Choucas in 1992 -, and consultant in electronic publishing, Nicolas
Pewny wrote in February 2003: "I see the future digital book as a
'total work' putting together text, sound, images, video, and
interactivity: a new way to design, and write, and read, perhaps on a
single book, constantly renewed, which would contain everything we have
read, a single and multiple companion. Utopian? Improbable? Maybe not
that much!" (NEF Interview)