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This phone was the world's first commercial handheld telephone! (McCracken 2010)
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With an integrated camera and touch screen technology, this phone was the "ultimate in mobile communications and multimedia applications" (Randazzese 2003).
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Ganterbien says “this phone was one of the best cell phones – analog or digital – on the market”. It was the smallest during this time period and also featured ring tones, call time and tone controls (Ganterbien 1997).
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This phone was among the first cell phones to combine phone, pages, E-mails, fax and computer.(Ted 1997). It was also the first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU.
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The first colour cell phone.
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First mobile phone based on the wireless application protocol (WAP and was able to store up to 100 contacts and keep 500 messages (Normans Media Ltd. 1995)
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The first-ever combination MP3 player/ cellular phone (Niz 2001)
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First camera phone, however only available in Japan (Ha 2010)
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The first GSM colour handset - Ericsson's T68 (Hibberd 2002)
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First to follow Japan, this phone was America's first wireless phone with an embedded digital camera. Also featuring portrait flash and zoom (Newswire 2003)
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The legendary flip phone by Motorola.
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This was the first 3G Pocket PC phone at HTC and the first to come with Windows Mobile.
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Nokia 3G Smartphone incorporates a 3.2-megapixel camera with an auto-focus Zeiss lens (Lane 2006)
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LG Electronics Slider Phone, the latest edition of Super-Multi optical storage devices (Wireless News 2006)
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The first smartphone by Apple.
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Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC smartphone.
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HTC’s answer to the iPhone with a full VGA- resolution touch screen
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The next generation smartphone by Apple featuring the app store.
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A direct competitor to the iPhone, the Blackerry storm features "advanced SurePress typing technology, WiFi access, and video recording capabilities" (Trautschold 2010).
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The first 4G cell to hit the market (Vasquez 2010).
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Samsung phone featuring a number of apps and a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and GPS (Newstex 2011)
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Very popular during it's time the Samsung Galaxy SIII comes with 4.8-inch Super Amoled screen, Android 4.4 (Kit) OS, 3.5 G internet access, 1.4 GHz quad-core processor and 8 MP camera as stated by MENA Report 2012
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One of the best quality camera phones on the market at the time.
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Introduced as slightly longer and with a larger screen then previous Apple devices. It features improvements to the camera, such as panorama photography (Radin 2012)
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A big competitor of Apple devices the HTC One features a
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One of the more recent developments by Apple, this device introduced finger print access.
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This is the most recent and most popular smart phone on the market now in high demand.
