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The Brick Phone
The first mobile phone was manufactured by Motorola and the first moblie cell phone call was made by Marty Cooper who was the engineer of this revolutionary phone. The Motorola Dayna TAC had a LED screen and gave up to 30 minutes of talk time. This cell phone was very expensive costing almost $4,000. -
The Clamshell
The Motorala Micro TAC was the first truly portable phone. This phone was a little bit smaller and could fit in most jacket pockets. Along with the LED display and standard 12 buttons this phone also had a caculator, hands free option and a key tones. Just like the Dayna TAC the Micro was just as expensive and cost about $2,500. This was also the start of flip phones -
The antenna phone
Nokia manufactures their first phone the Nokia 101 and Motorola produces another, International 3200. These phones had very long antennas that allowed for longer distance calles with better connection than the previous cell phones. The Motorola allowed up to 2 hours of talk time wich was a big improvement from the DayaTAC. -
The PDA
PDA's were very revolutionary and was the beging fo the touch screen trend. This phone was owned by buisness men and many other professionals. This was also the first cell phone that had internet connectivity. Apple launched the first PDA, Newton (Platform) in 1993 but Plam had a more popular phone called the Palm Piolt that was launched in1997 and cost up to $300. -
Samsung
Samsung enters the cell phone manufacturing buisness -
Nokia 6000
The Nokia 6000 series had interchangabele face plates that allowed you to personalize you cell phone. These phones were also very afforadable which was a big change compared to what phone prices were before. More people now owned cell phones making this moblie communocation more popular. -
The texting era
SMS is now starting to become popular and full QWERTY keyboards were now being installed in more phones. Manufacturing companies saw this as their chance to capatilize on this development to make more money. The blackberry QUARK became the most popular phone with a QWERTY keyboard because of their instant Blackberry to Blackberry messaging. -
The Razar
Motorola's most popular cell phone was the Razar. This was one of the most craved cell phone because of its slim look, camera and it could fit in the smallest pockets. -
Smartphones
Apple sets the standards for smart phones. An iPhone3GS had a 2MP camera, internet enabled and a digital music palyer. This was just the begining of what smart phones are able to do. -
Apps are here
iPhones were the first to have applications capability. In competition with Apple, Android releases a Google open source for Samsung, HTC, and LG phones to get apps. -
iPhone
The fisrt i Phone was manufactured. This phone revolutionized smart phone with its number of apps and features. iPhone brought life to smartphones setting higher expectations of what the furture smartphones should be able to do. -
Nokia?
With the release of the iPhone, Apple becomes a big threat to Nokia. Apple's products are becoming more popular than Nokia's selling over 1 million untis in their first week of relasing the iPhone3G. -
Androids
Android operationg systems first becomes popular with Manufacturing company HTC. Their HTC Majic started the Android era. -
Apple vs. Samsung
The team iPhone vs. team Galaxy begins. Samsung overthrows Nokia is becoming the worlds leading phone manufactring company. With Apple's rising popularity as a threat Samsung beings to up their game and relases comercials mocking iPhone users. -
Cell Phones of Today
Cell phones today have incredible processing capibilites. They have the ablity to multitask, loacate where you are, act as a GPS, take pictures with up to 16MP. These phones can act as a computer, book or anything you want it to be. Instead of only being able to talk up to 30 minutes like the Motorola Dayna TAC phones today can hold conversations for hours.
