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First Cell Phone
The first mobile phone was created by a senior engineer at Motorola, Martin Cooper. The Motorola Dyna-Tac weighed 2.5 pounds and measured 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches. The features included 35 minutes of talk-time & 30 contacts to be stored, as well as taking roughly 10 hours to recharge Ted Oehmke The New,York Times 2000, A Good Call Martin Cooper is credited as father of the cell phone, Denver, Colo. veiwed 28th August 2014 -
First Commerical Cell Phone
Motorola released this first commercial cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. It too offered 30 minutes of talk-time & capable of holding 30 contacts, but had an improvement of six hours standby. Customers rushed to the stores to purchase this $3,995 portable device. -
Mobira Cityman 900
The Mobira Cityman 900 was one of the first compact phones when compared to earlier models. It was not until 1987 that Nokia introduced one of the world’s first handheld phones, the Mobira Cityman 900. It weighed only 0.8 kg and cost $4,650 -
Nokia 2110
The Nokia 2110 was the first Nokia phone to have the Nokia tune ringtone. Only very basic features like send receive SMS, 10 listed dialed calls. -
Motorola StarTAC
World’s first clamshell handset - another first for Motorola. -
Nokia 6110
The Nokia 6110 had three games, Memory, Snake, Logic, a Calculator, clock and calendar, along with a currency converter. Profile settings could also be changed. -
Nokia 7110
The Nokia 7110 was designed to enable easy access to Internet content from a mobile phone. It had a large graphic display, despite being almost 80 percent larger than in the Nokia 6110, yet the overall dimensions of the Nokia 7110 are smaller. -
BlackBerry 850
The BlackBerry 850 was the first handset released under the BlackBerry brand -
Nokia 3310
The phone that all of your mates had at school – if you went to school in the mid-to-late-90s, that is. Even in 2013, many regard the 3310 as one of the best mobile devices ever created. Some even say it’s indestructible. -
Samsung SGH-T100
the first phone ever to use a thin-film transistor active matrix LCD display. -
BlackBerry 5810
It didn’t have a built in speaker so you had to plug headphones in to make phone calls, but the BlackBerry 5810 did have email and a QWERTY keyboard. -
Motorola Razr V3
Motorola shifted over a 130 million of its ‘fashion’ phone between the years 2004 and 2006, making it the best-selling clamshell handset in history. -
BlackBerry 7270
First BlackBerry handset to feature Wi-Fi, and one of the main reasons for widespread CrackBerry addiction. -
Nokia N95
A true smartphone, one that ran on Symbian, packed in a 332MHz Texas Instruments CPU, and feature 160MB of RAM. It also featured a decent 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. -
LG Shine
Dimensions: 99.8 x 50.6 x 13.8mm
Weight: 118g
Operating system: Java MIDP 2.0
CPU: ARM9 115 MHz
Memory: 50 MB Internal, microSD (TransFlash) external memory card slot
Battery: 800mAh Li-Ion
Display: 240 x 320, 2.2-inch Display 262K-color TFT LCD
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Apple iPhone 3G
This one needs no introduction and is largely responsible for changing the face of the mobile space forever. Apple’s iPhone popularised applications with millions of consumers, helped make touchscreen interfaces the norm, and broke new ground for overall design and finish.
The iPhone 3G was the sharpest tip of the mobile stick, but from here on out things would begin progressing even faster.
