Innovation and Commercialisation: A Brief History of the Mobile and Smartphone

This assignment covers Learning Outcome 1&2 (LO1, LO2) of Unit 8: Innovation and Commercialisation. The history of technological change in smartphone industry is bound with initial radical breakthroughs (inventions) followed by incremental improvements (innovations). The assignment requires highlighting such inventions and innovations and determining the difference between (1) inventions of technological breakthroughs and (2) major innovations and (3) minor/incremental innovations. The different sources of innovations related to the product of Motorola MicroTAC 9800x (1989), IBM’s Simon (1994) are analyzed.