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First Mobile Phone Prototype
Marcus Cooper of Motorolla invents the first mobile phone prototype and calls rival company AT&T with it. -
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Smartphones Over Time
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Motorolla DynaTak 8000x
Motorolla creates the first phone to be considered a cell phone. The phone is the first model small enough to carry -
IBM Simon
IBM comes up with the first smartphone type design as they release the IBM Simon. The phone combines features a cell phone, pager, fax machine, and a computer into the device -
QWERTY Keyboard
Nokia creates the Nokia 9000 Communicator, which is the first phone to have a full QWERTY keyboard. -
Smartphone Term Coined
Ericsson releases the GS88 phone and are the first company to use the term smartphone. The company would go on to release one of the first camera phones in 2002, the P800 -
Blackberry Becomes Popular
The first Blackberry was introduced in 1999, but the 6120 model released in 2004 was big in the corporate world, as it was the best phone on the market in terms of email capability. -
Moto Razr
The Moto Razr is introduced in 2004. The Razr became one of the most popular "flip phones" of the mid 2000's. -
Apple Introduces the iPhone
Apple introduced the iPhone to the world in 2007 and forever changed the landscape of smartphones. Apple had heirwn operating system, state of the art touch screen, built in wifi, a 2 meagpixel camera, a minumun of 4GB of storage and improved bluetooth. Apple has since released newer models and still has the control over the smartphone market. -
Motorolla Droid
Motorolla releases the Droid, which becomes one of Apples main competitors. The Droid ran its own operating system that rivaled the OSx system used by the iPhone -
Samsung Galaxy
The Samsung Galaxy S is introduced. Samsung consequently gets into the smartphone race, as their phone rivaled the iPhone 4 which was released in the same year. Samsung has since made a lot of innovations in the screen size on their phones as the compete with Apple.