Cell Phone Evolution

Motorola DynaTac 8000X

Sep 21, 1983

The first cell phone released to the general public was DynaTac 8000X, and it was bought anonymously for $ 3,995.00.

Motorola MicroTac 9800X

Apr 25, 1989

The price for the Motorola MicroTac 9800X was $ 2,300.00. It was the smallest and lightest phone available at the time.

IBM Simon Personal Communicator

Aug 16, 1994

The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was the first PDA /phone combo. BellSouth Cellular initially offered the Simon throughout its 15 state service area for US$899 with a two-year service contract or US$1099 without a contract. Later in the product's life, BellSouth Cellular reduced the price to US$599 with a two-year contract

Motorola SartTAC SMS enabled

Jan 3, 1996

The Motorola StarTAC is a clamshell mobile phone manufactured by Motorola. It was released on 3 January 1996, being the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone.[2] The StarTAC is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design that had been launched in 1989.

Qualcomm QCP 2700

Sep 1, 1997

The Qualcomm QCP 2700 was introduced in September,1997 as the first cell phone with dual band, dual mode 1900 MHz CDMA digital, 800 MHz analog phone.

Nokia 5110

Mar 6, 1998

The first "fashion" phone. Interchangeable multi-coloured facias allowed users to customize the hand sets.

Erickson T28s

Dec 12, 1999

Introduced in the market in 1999, this cell phone was known as the first phone that was small, flat and with a flat antenna.

Nokia 3310

Sep 1, 2000

Released in the year 2000, the Nokia 3310 went on to be one of the most successful mobile phones ever. More than 125 million were sold.

Nokia 5510

Oct 11, 2001

This cell phone featured a full QWERTY keyboard, and could store up to 64 mb of music.

Sanyo SCP 5300

Dec 1, 2002

This vcell phone has a vibrant color display, and built in camera with flash.

Sony Eickson T616

Sep 10, 2003

This cell phone feature rich GSM large display camera, and Bluetooth with a compact display; java, mophun games, voice dialing and voice memo.

Motorola Razr V3

Sep 12, 2004

This phone was developed in 2003, but it was only released in 2004. The v3 sold more the 130 million units and it was on the market until 2007.

Blackberry Pearl

Sep 12, 2006

This was a serie of smartphone developed with a camera and media player

Apple iphone

Jan 9, 2007

The 1st Generation of Apple iphone was announced on 2007 with a touch screen. A Revolutionary product, a powerful computer in the palm of people's hands. 90 billions in sales, nearly 1.4 million phones sold in one month.

iphone 3G

Jun 9, 2008

The iphone 3G have a high speed data,GPS, touchscreen, huge glass display, wit 8 or 16 GB.

Blackberry Curve 8900

Feb 3, 2009

A Smartphone featuring GPS and Blackberry maps, multimedia streaming, 3.15 MP camera, Bluetooth. It was announced in 2008 and released in 2009.

Google Nexus One

Jan 5, 2010

It's an Android Smartphone featuring the ability to transcribe voice to text, noise suppressions, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation.

Samsung Galaxy SII

Feb 13, 2011

With a 4.3 inches super Amolded plus screen, Samsung Galaxy SII is a slinky smartphone, with a great camera of 1080p and video, a class speed and responsiveness.

Nokia Lumia 800

Sep 5, 2012

This was the first phone to run Windows phone OS. This phone features 16 GB of internal memory, digital compass GPS, touchscreen, video capture, Bluetooth.

Samsung Galaxy S4

Mar 14, 2013

This smartphone has a HD display, camera, Bluetooth, and a lightweight size.