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The invention of the cellphone
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years today.By Motorola employee Martin Cooper. Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world's first commercial cell phone, Cooper stood near a 900 MHz base station on Sixth Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, in New York City and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/the-first-mobile-phone-call-was-made-40-years-ago-today/274611/ -
First commercial cell phone
In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost £2639 ($3995). http://www.knowyourmobile.com/nokia/nokia-3310/19848/history-mobile-phones-1973-2008-handsets-made-it-all-happen -
First pocket phone.
Motorola's MicroTAC, which introduced the first flip phone design. The hardware was place in a hinged section of the phone, reducing the phone's size when not in use. It was truly the world's first pocket phone. Made it easier to carry around and to hold http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#1989-11 -
first smart phone
Perhaps the world's first smartphone, IBM Simon was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA, all rolled into one. It included a calendar, address book, clock, calculator, notepad, email, gamers and a touchscreen with QWERTY keyboard. It originally sold for $899, which would be just over $1,300 nowadays. You may remember Simon from Sandra Bullock's The Net. http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#1993-13 -
Change in design and portability
1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability, with mobile devices gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers for the first time. By the late-1990s, mobile devices were fast becoming the norm thanks to the following handsets. Nokia 6110
Features:
Three games:
Calculator, clock and calendar
Currency converter
Works as a pager
Profile settings
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First cell phone with a camera
Sharp was first to the camera phone market with their J-SH04 (J-Phone), released by J-Mobile in Japan. It offered a mere 0.1 megapixel resolution. Some like to give credit to Olympus for being the first camera to transmit digital images over a cellular network with their Deltis VC-1100. Others prefer Philippe Kahn's story of rigging up a camera to a cell phone with wires to send images of his newborn baby. http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#2000-22 -
First cell phone with a fully integrated web browser
One of the first phones to equip a fully functional web experience and integrate an instant messaging client (AIM) was the Danger Hiptop in 2002, later re-branded the T-Mobile Sidekick. Its messaging features and keyboard made it one of the best selling phones in the deaf community. Also new was an LCD screen that rotated and flipped to reveal a large QWERTY keyboard. http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#2002-25 -
The first Iphone was released
This was the first smartphone by the monster company known as apple. It revolutionized the phone industry in general by adding a full multi touch screen to navigate the OS. This lead to many other companies to follow in apple's foot steps and make even more innovative phones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)
