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Brick Phone
"The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. -
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Cell Phones
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MicroTAC 9800X
The world's first flip phone was the Motorola MicroTAC 9800X launched in 1989. It's a design that is still seen today on millions of mobile phones around the world. The phones and batteries may have got smaller and more powerful, but the basic design is still there. The early phones were all analogue, and had the small LED display that is sought after by collectors. The later phones had the modern LCD display and some of them were digital and can still be used today. One of the best features of -
IBM/BELLSOUTH simon personal communicator
Rich Guidotti, formerly of BellSouth, debuted the first smartphone, IBM's Simon Personal Communicator, at a 1993 trade show at Walt Disney World — 14 years before Apple's iconic iPhone. Guidotti, 47, now AT&T's vice president and general manager of the carrier's North Florida operations, talks about mobile technology's future and Orlando's role in the wireless world. -
Nokia 9110i communicator
"The Nokia 9110i Communicator will continue to support the Internet browsing and e-mail services, but the add-on WAP application will provide users with access to a new emerging group of mobile Internet services. The large display and the keyboard function of the communicator are ideal for WAP based services with graphics and tables. Services, such as mobile banking, news and various corporate Intranet applications, will be particularly fast and convenient to use with the Nokia 9110i Communicato -
Blackberry 850
The RIM 850 Wireless Handheld (pictured) was announced on 12 July, 1999. Note how it was not yet called a BlackBerry; it was, however, the one that garnered it some attention. The device itself (850 or 950, depending on network and locality, a recurrent theme for RIM) had a six- or eight-line display and was capable of sending messages, emails and had calendars, address books, task lists, a calculator and an alarm function. It was one of the first wireless devices capable of connecting people t -
Nokia 3310
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Samsung SGH- T100
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Nokia 7280
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Iphone 3g
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Samsung Galaxy Gear