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Motorola employee, Martin Cooper, made the first mobile phone call with a prototype that later became Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. This became the first Cell Phone ever created. The phone call was made in New York City to a lab in New Jersey.
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It intended purpose was to be modeled as an analog cellphone. It was the first example or introduction to the flip phone. The phone has a mouthpiece that flipped over the keypad.
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This phone was the first digital handheld phone, and it eventually became one of Nokia's biggest selling phones ever. It was the first mass-produced GSM digital phone. It could be used for 12 hours in standard mode.
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First phone to be built with a touch screen and smartphone features; pager, calculator, etc. It's starting price was an estimated $900.
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The first phone to actually be marketed as a "smart phone". It had normal things that a smart phone had today such as a calendar, notes, and even built in games into the system. This was a major step for mobile phones because it slowly began the era of smart phones.
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This phone was created by Research in Motion. This cellphone was equipped with organizer functions and capabilities, and a keyboard. This phone was different from the previous phones because it was equipped with an alphabetic keyboard.
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One of the most popular innovations of the phone. It was considered a fashion statement to celebrities more than it was considered a phone. In the first four years after it was introduced, Motorola sold over 110 million.
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The most recent development to the phone is the IPhone. It was the first phone with a full touchscreen and was later introduced with a front facing camera. The day it was released, millions of people lined outside the apple stores waiting to get their hands on the IPhone. They were originally priced at $500. The IPhone, since then, has been adapted and has released the newest model in 2016, IPhone 7.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/25/apples-iphone-a-definitive-history-in-pictures/
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