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Evolution of the cellphone

By ed-ed_1

  • The invention of the cellphone

    The invention of the cellphone
    The first mobile phone call was made 40 years today.By Motorola employee Martin Cooper. Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world's first commercial cell phone, Cooper stood near a 900 MHz base station on Sixth Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, in New York City and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/the-first-mobile-phone-call-was-made-40-years-ago-today/274611/

  • First commercial cell phone

    First commercial cell phone
    In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost £2639 ($3995). http://www.knowyourmobile.com/nokia/nokia-3310/19848/history-mobile-phones-1973-2008-handsets-made-it-all-happen

  • First pocket phone.

    First pocket phone.
    Motorola's MicroTAC, which introduced the first flip phone design. The hardware was place in a hinged section of the phone, reducing the phone's size when not in use. It was truly the world's first pocket phone. Made it easier to carry around and to hold http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#1989-11

  • first smart phone

    first smart phone
    Perhaps the world's first smartphone, IBM Simon was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA, all rolled into one. It included a calendar, address book, clock, calculator, notepad, email, gamers and a touchscreen with QWERTY keyboard. It originally sold for $899, which would be just over $1,300 nowadays. You may remember Simon from Sandra Bullock's The Net. http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#1993-13

  • Change in design and portability

    1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability, with mobile devices gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers for the first time. By the late-1990s, mobile devices were fast becoming the norm thanks to the following handsets. Nokia 6110
    Features:
    Three games:
    Calculator, clock and calendar
    Currency converter
    Works as a pager
    Profile settings
    http://www.knowyourmobile.com/nokia/nokia-3310/19848/history-mobile-phones-1973-2008-handsets-made-it-all-happen

  • First cell phone with a camera

    First cell phone with a camera
    Sharp was first to the camera phone market with their J-SH04 (J-Phone), released by J-Mobile in Japan. It offered a mere 0.1 megapixel resolution. Some like to give credit to Olympus for being the first camera to transmit digital images over a cellular network with their Deltis VC-1100. Others prefer Philippe Kahn's story of rigging up a camera to a cell phone with wires to send images of his newborn baby. http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#2000-22

  • First cell phone with a fully integrated web browser

    One of the first phones to equip a fully functional web experience and integrate an instant messaging client (AIM) was the Danger Hiptop in 2002, later re-branded the T-Mobile Sidekick. Its messaging features and keyboard made it one of the best selling phones in the deaf community. Also new was an LCD screen that rotated and flipped to reveal a large QWERTY keyboard. http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-visual-history-of-cell-phones-2011-5#2002-25

  • The first Iphone was released

    The first Iphone was released
    This was the first smartphone by the monster company known as apple. It revolutionized the phone industry in general by adding a full multi touch screen to navigate the OS. This lead to many other companies to follow in apple's foot steps and make even more innovative phones
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)