Cell Phone evolution

Motorola Dyna TAC 8000X

Sep 21, 1983

A full charge took roughly 10 hours and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It was priced at $3,995. It was nicknamed the "brick phone"

Motorola MicroTAC 9800X

Apr 25, 1989

Smallest and lighest phone available at its time. It had a new "flip design". It set the standard for modern flip phones today.

Nokia 101

Nov 10, 1992

This is when Nokia decided to focus soley on making mobile phones. Nokia wanted to make their phones the easiest phones to use. This phone started the "candy bar" phones.

Apple's first personal digital assistant device

Feb 16, 1993

These devices were called the "Newton" because that was the operating system. It was touch screen but had problems detecting handwriting.

Nokia 1610

Mar 16, 1996

This was a nice phone for business and complimented other models similar to it. It was a popular model. And also had a pull out antennae.

Samsung enters the mobile phone business

Mar 16, 1998

Nokia 8210

Mar 16, 1999

When it released it was the smallest, lightest phone on the market. It had press on covers with different colors. Could send SMS messages up to 160 characters long.

Nokia becomes the leading global mobile phone manufacturer

Mar 16, 2000

Sony Ericsson T68i

Mar 16, 2001

It was a candy-bar style mobile phone. It was the first phone to have a color screen. It was featured in the James Bond film.

Samsung launches first PDA phone

Mar 16, 2002

Samsung SGH-T100

Mar 16, 2002

it is a dual-band GSM mobile phone. It was the first mobile phone to use a thin-film transistor active matric LCD screen.

Blackberry Quark

Mar 16, 2003

It was one of the most popular of the first BlackBerry models. It had a full keyboard, SMS, memory, and built-in speakerphone.

Samsung outshines Sony as customer's perferred manufacturer

Mar 16, 2005

Apple Iphone

Jan 9, 2007

This was a multi-touch touch screen. Steve Jobs claimed that Apple was going to reinvent the phone. It was a big release and people waited outside the stores for it.

Apple sells 1 million Iphone 3Gs in opening weekend

Jun 11, 2008

The 3Gs allowed third party applications on the phone.

Samsung Galaxy S

Mar 16, 2010

It is the first in the andriod series of Samsung. At the time of the release, it had the fastest graphical processing of a smart phone and was the thinnest smartphone at 9.9 mm.

Apple Iphone 4

Jun 24, 2010

It released with a new hardware for Apple. It also had high resolution Retina Display. It had a revamped design and was very popular.

Samsung Galaxy S4

Mar 16, 2012

It has an increased software and became the first phone with a finger print reader. It was Samsungs fastest selling smartphone.

Apple Iphone 5

Sep 21, 2012

5,000,000 unites are sold in the first weekend. It was the first iphone to be developed under Tim Cook. It featued major design changes in cmparison to the models before. It had the shortest lidespan of any Iphone thus far.

Apple 5s

Mar 16, 2013

It has fingerprint recognition and IOS 7 is released with it.