On Friday I had an interesting discussion about the origin of mobile applications. What was the first application that were made for mobile phones? As in most discussions like this we never came to a conclusion. I’m curious of nature and could not let this question be left with out an answer.

During the discussion we narrowed down the definition of a mobile application to be:

An application developed and distributed not by the phone manufactures but by a third party developer and installed on the phone by the owner.

This way we could rule out the basic built in applications like phone book, sms writer etc.

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