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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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The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.
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The first Nokia phone to bring GPRS internet services to the mass market. The 3510i, pictured here, was a more advanced version with a colour screen.
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Research In Motion’s first integrated phone/PDA.
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When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry.
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The first design-conscious entry from RIM, the Pearl is still being offered on the market today.
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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.