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Dr. Martin Cooper made the first phone call over a cellular network in 1973, but it took an entire decade before the DynaTAC 8000x was sold as the first commercial handheld cellular phone in 1983. It weighed 1.75 lb., stood 13 in. high, stored 30 numbers, took 10 hours to recharge and cost $3,995.
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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.
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The first digital hand-size mobile telephone.
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This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was produced until 1994.
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The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo.
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The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.
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Alternately called the “banana phone”, this phone was popularized in the first Matrix movie.
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The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU.
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This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone.
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This cell phone was the most popular consumer model at the time of its release and for some time afterwards.
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This phone was loved for its customizable design, but hated for its screen fade.
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The R380 featured a black and white touchscreen, partially covered by a flip.
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This popular phone sold 126 million models, and was particularly popular in Europe.
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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.
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Nokia’s answer to the Game Boy advance, this phone/games system had a couple of award winning titles before it succumbed to its clunky interface design.
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When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry.
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Nokia’s first smartphone with a 1 megapixel camera.
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One of the first 3G phones, the Nokia 6680 was considered to be high end at the time of its release.
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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.
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Nokia’s popular smartphone features a slider to access multimedia buttons and a numeric keypad.
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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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