History of the Mobile Phone

  • Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

    Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
    This phone was the world's first commercial handheld telephone! (McCracken 2010)
  • Sony Ericsson P800

    Sony Ericsson P800
    With an integrated camera and touch screen technology, this phone was the "ultimate in mobile communications and multimedia applications" (Randazzese 2003).
  • Motorola StarTAC

    Motorola StarTAC
    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).
  • Nokia 9000 Communicator

    Nokia 9000 Communicator
    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.
  • Siemens S10

    Siemens S10
    The first colour cell phone.
  • Nokia 7110

    Nokia 7110
    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)
  • Samsung SPH-M100

    Samsung SPH-M100
    The first-ever combination MP3 player/ cellular phone (Niz 2001)
  • Sharp J-SH04

    Sharp J-SH04
    First camera phone, however only available in Japan (Ha 2010)
  • Ericsson T68

    Ericsson T68
    The first GSM colour handset - Ericsson's T68 (Hibberd 2002)
  • Sanyo SCP-5300

    Sanyo SCP-5300
    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)
  • Motorola Razr

    Motorola Razr
    The legendary flip phone by Motorola.
  • HTC Universal

    HTC Universal
    This was the first 3G Pocket PC phone at HTC and the first to come with Windows Mobile.
  • Nokia N73

    Nokia N73
    Nokia 3G Smartphone incorporates a 3.2-megapixel camera with an auto-focus Zeiss lens (Lane 2006)
  • LG Shine

    LG Shine
    LG Electronics Slider Phone, the latest edition of Super-Multi optical storage devices (Wireless News 2006)
  • iPhone (1st Generation)

    iPhone (1st Generation)
    The first smartphone by Apple.
  • HTC TYTN 100

    HTC TYTN 100
    Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC smartphone.
  • HTC Touch

    HTC Touch
    HTC’s answer to the iPhone with a full VGA- resolution touch screen
    and GPS, bluetooth and wifi (Monckton 2008)
  • iPhone 3G

    iPhone 3G
    The next generation smartphone by Apple featuring the app store.
  • BlackBerry Storm

    BlackBerry Storm
    A direct competitor to the iPhone, the Blackerry storm features "advanced SurePress typing technology, WiFi access, and video recording capabilities" (Trautschold 2010).
  • HTC Evo 4G

    HTC Evo 4G
    The first 4G cell to hit the market (Vasquez 2010).
  • iPhone 4

    iPhone 4
  • Samsung Galaxy Prevail

    Samsung Galaxy Prevail
    Samsung phone featuring a number of apps and a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and GPS (Newstex 2011)
  • Samsung Galaxy SIII

    Samsung Galaxy SIII
    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
  • Nokia Lumia 920

    Nokia Lumia 920
    One of the best quality camera phones on the market at the time.
  • iPhone 5

    iPhone 5
    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)
  • HTC One

    HTC One
    A big competitor of Apple devices the HTC One features a
    4.7-inch 1080p screen, a Blinkfeed social network-aggregating home screen and a camera that takes excellent photos with shutter screen (Murray 2013)
  • iPhone 5s

    iPhone 5s
    One of the more recent developments by Apple, this device introduced finger print access.
  • iPhone 6/6s

    iPhone 6/6s
    This is the most recent and most popular smart phone on the market now in high demand.