cell phones

First Camera Phone

2000 BCE

The J-SH04 was a mobile phone made by Sharp Corporation and released by J-Phone (SoftBank Mobile). It was only available in Japan, and was released in November 2000. It was Japan's first ever phone with a built-in camera (110,000-pixel CMOS) and color display (256-color display).

Samsung Group

1938 BCE

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol.

Apple iPhone

Oct 21, 1940

From the first phones that only offered one hour of talk time to the Apple iPhone with Internet access and limitless Apps, cell phones have exponentially evolved over the past decades. Although cell phone history officially turned its first page in the 1940s, cell phones became a "must have" possession by the 1990s. Cell phone technology continues to evolve by leaps and bounds and will likely continue to do so for years to come.

First Mobile Phone

Apr 3, 1973

The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 1.1kg and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge.

First Clamshell Flip Phone

Jan 3, 1989

Motorola StarTAC. The Motorola StarTAC is a clamshell mobile phone manufactured by Motorola. It was released on January 3, 1996, being the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone. The StarTAC is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design that had been launched in 1989.

First PDA Phone

Jan 7, 1992

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1994, IBM introduced the first PDA with full mobile phone functionality, the IBM Simon, which can also be considered the first smartphone

Inspiration for Flip Phones

Jan 3, 1996

The first flip phone, called the StarTAC, was invented by Motorola in 1996. The concept of "flip phones" was first introduced by StarTAC's predecessor, called the MicroTAC, in 1989.

Precursor to the BlackBerry Smartphone

Sep 18, 1996

BlackBerry is a line of smartphones and services designed and marketed by BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion/RIM).[1] The very first RIM device was the Inter@ctive Pager 900, a clamshell-type device that allowed two-way paging, announced on September 18, 1996.[2] After the success of the 900, the Inter@ctive Pager 800 was created for IBM, which bought US$10 million worth of them on February 4, 1998.[3

HTC

Oct 21, 1997

Founded in 1997, HTC began as an original design manufacturer and original equipment manufacturer, designing and manufacturing devices such as mobile phones and tablets.[3][4]

Sony Mobile

Oct 1, 2001

Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is a multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, wholly owned by Sony. It was founded on October 1, 2001 as a joint venture between Sony and the Swedish telecommunications equipment company Ericsson, under the name Sony Ericsson.[3] Sony acquired Ericsson's share in the venture on February 16, 2012.[4]