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Motorola has the first hand held cell phone. Created by Chairman and CEO of ArrayComm, Martin Cooper. Motorola made history with this.
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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the world's first commercially available portable cellular phone. It had a numeric keypad, a single-line display and a deplorable battery with only one hour of talk time. It cost $50 per month, $0.040 per minute of peak time and $0.20 per minute during non peak time for
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The MicroTac became the inspiration for the first flip phone in later years. Had a piece that flipped over the mouth part and an full keypad.
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The released the first mobile phone ti feature PDA capabilities. Created nearly 15 years before apple released their first smartphone.
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RIM released their first ever BlackBerry as a two-way pager. It had PDA functions but still was not very good on mobile connection. BlackBerry 850 supported email and HTML browsing on a monochrome screen.
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Nokia released the first candybar phone. It was lightweight and had a rechargeable battery. With 160 million units sold, it is still one of the most popular phones every sold. It has features such as headset, games and picture messages.
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Ericsson introduced the first Bluetooth phone to the world. It allowed people to connect wireless their phones to their computers.
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Sanyo SCP-5300 appeared on the market with the first ever integrated camera on a mobile phone
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Apple iphone 1.0 is introduced to the cellular industry with multi-touch display and full operating system.
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Apple releases their latest iphone; iphone X. With all touch screen, face ID lock screen and the fastest phone on the market. Apple has been leading the cell phone game since their first release. With every new phone, features, speed and life increases dramatically.
