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The First Mobile Phone Call Was Made 40 Years Ago Today. On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.
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What were cell phones like back than and how they are now.
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This phone was the first cell phone to be used out in public.
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The first truly portable phone. Up until its release, most cellular phones were installed as car phones due to the inability to fit them into a jacket pocket.
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The first digital hand-size mobile telephone.
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The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo.
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This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was produced until 1994.
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The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU.
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The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.
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This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone.
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This phone was loved for its customizable design, but hated for its screen fade.
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The R380 featured a black and white touchscreen, partially covered by a flip.
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One of the first phones with a WAP browser. A version of this phone was released in China that allowed Chinese character SMS.
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This phone contained premium features not normally found on handsets of the time, such as Infrared, a fully functional calendar and a FM Radio.
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This was Ericsson’s first handset with a colour screen.
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The first Nokia phone to bring GPRS internet services to the mass market. The 3510i, pictured here, was a more advanced version with a colour screen.
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This was the first Nokia set to feature a built-in camera and was featured in the movie Minority Report.
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When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry.
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Released as a low-end GSM phone, and widely used in developing countries.
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This model was sold as the Orange SPV M3100 in the UK, keeping with HTC’s tradition of private labelling for individual carriers.
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The original iPhone was released in June 2007 with an auto-rotate sensor, a multi-touch sensor that allowed multiple inputs while ignoring minor touches, a touch interface that replaced the traditional QWERTY keyboards, and many other features that helped to give Apple an almost instant healthy market share on its release.
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The iPhone 3G was made even more desirable by all the apps that could be purchased for it in the AppStore when it was released in July of 2008.
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