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With a prototype of DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage (DynaTAC) Motorola Vice President, Martin Cooper, made first mobile call to his rival Joel S. Engel from Bell Labs
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Nokia developed the, Mobira Senator,
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Motorola's DynaTAC was made public, weighed under 2 lbs and cost about $400
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Although bigger it brought longer talk time (hours of talk vs. DynaTAC’s 60 minutes) at a more affordable price
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This was the first flip phone design and the first pocket phone.
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Was the first hand-sized digital mobile phone to use a 2G connection
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This was the first smart phone. It was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine, and PDA
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Motorola's Bag Phone 2900 was the car phone to have due to it’s longer battery life, long talk time, and great signal. It was originally made a 1G but later was available as a 2G
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StarTAC by Motorola was the first phone that was able to fold in half and was also known as the “clamshell”. This phone ran on 1G and later became 2G
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Nokia 9000 Communicator, first cell phone that was also called a mini-computer. It also had a fell keyboard.
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Nokia 8810 first cell phone that did not have an external antenna, paving the way for today’s smart phones. It also had a sliding keyboard.
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Nokia 3210, the most popular cell phone in history and also one of the firsts to allow (preinstalled) picture messages.
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Sharp’s J-SH04 camera phone with a 0.1 megapixel resolution and this again allowed picture messages; sold only in Japan