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Which Swedish telecommunications company is credited with first using the term 'smartphone' in 1997 to describe its GS88 prototype?

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Ericsson

While Ericsson coined the term for marketing, the technology had been evolving since the early 90s with devices like the IBM Simon and the Nokia 9000 Communicator.

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