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First Mobile Phone
The First Mobile Phone Call Was Made 40 Years Ago Today. On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. -
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Cell Phone Evolution
What were cell phones like back than and how they are now. -
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
This phone was the first cell phone to be used out in public. -
Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
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. -
Motorola International 3200
The first digital hand-size mobile telephone. -
BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator
The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo. -
Nokia 1011
This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was produced until 1994. -
Nokia 9000 Communicator
The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU. -
Motorola StarTAC
The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell. -
Nokia 9110i
This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone. -
Nokia 8210
This phone was loved for its customizable design, but hated for its screen fade. -
Ericsson R380
The R380 featured a black and white touchscreen, partially covered by a flip. -
Ericsson R320
One of the first phones with a WAP browser. A version of this phone was released in China that allowed Chinese character SMS. -
Nokia 8310
This phone contained premium features not normally found on handsets of the time, such as Infrared, a fully functional calendar and a FM Radio. -
Ericsson T68
This was Ericsson’s first handset with a colour screen. -
Nokia 3510(i)
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. -
Nokia 7650
This was the first Nokia set to feature a built-in camera and was featured in the movie Minority Report. -
Motorola Razor V3
When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry. -
Nokia 1110
Released as a low-end GSM phone, and widely used in developing countries. -
HTC TyTN 100
This model was sold as the Orange SPV M3100 in the UK, keeping with HTC’s tradition of private labelling for individual carriers. -
iPhone
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. -
iPhone 3G
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 evolution of mobile phones
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Bricks to Brain
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Phones for the first calls
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The Evolution of Cell Phones
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