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Analog Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Advanced Mobile Phone System mobile phone as of 1983
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The first truly portable phone. Up until its release, most cellular phones were installed as car phones due to the inability to fit them into a jacket pocket.
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The first digital hand-size mobile telephone.
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This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was produced until 1994.
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The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo.
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The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.
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Alternately called the “banana phone”, this phone was popularized in the first Matrix movie.
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The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU.
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This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone.
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This smartphone featured a touchscreen and up to 128mb of memory.
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One of the “it” gadgets from 2003-2004 until BlackBerries overtook them in popularity. Three or four days between charges and a successful merger of phone, PDA, and camera made this the business tool of choice.
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When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry.
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The original iPhone was released in June 2007 with an auto-rotate sensor, a multi-touch sensor that allowed multiple inputs while ignoring minor touches, a touch interface that replaced the traditional QWERTY keyboards, and many other features that helped to give Apple an almost instant healthy market share on its release.
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The iPhone 3G was made even more desirable by all the apps that could be purchased for it in the AppStore when it was released in July of 2008.
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The iPhone 4 featured a higher-resolution 960×640 "Retina Display", a VGA front-facing camera for video calling and other apps, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 720p video capture.
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iPhone 5 features the dual-core A6 processor, increases the size of the Retina display to 4 inches, and replaces the 30-pin connector with an all-digital Lightning connector.
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The iPhone 5S features the dual-core 64-bit A7 processor, an updated camera with a larger aperture and dual-LED flash, and the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, integrated into the home button. iPhone 5C features the same A6 chip as the iPhone 5, along with a new backside-illuminated FaceTime camera and a new casing made of polycarbonate.
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Designed to be a direct competitor to the iPhone 3G and other 3G smartphones; RIM’s first device to do away with the QWERTY keyboard and incorporate a touchscreen.
