Why are we so obsessed with our smartphones?

[Windows Central]

Never in history has a single personal object so enamored so much of mankind the way that smartphones do today.
The first smartphones debuted in 1994, thirteen years before the iPhone. They were the tools of business types and techies. BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm ? they were the major smartphone players of the beginning of the 2000s, and while they sported a lot of the same basic functionality as today's phones, they weren't nearly as good.

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