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This was the first commercially available Cell Phone, and cost $3995
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The first text message was received on Christmas day, sent from one friend to another from his computer to his friend's phone
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The Kyocera 6035 was introduced. It was the first phone that had palm pilot features, including e-mail. This phone did not include any third party applications.
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This was the first phone to allow third party applications, such as games and applications that could access the internet for limited use.
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There are over 6,000,000,000 mobile phone subscriptions, reaching 87% of the population of the world, and covering people in every economic class