History of cellphones

By Joaopedro10

  • Portable AM radio

    Portable AM radio
    SCR-194 and 195. It is considered the first walkie-talkie, it was produced by the U.S Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories in Fort Monmouth, NJ.
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    History of cellphones

  • Portable FM radio

    Portable FM radio
    SCR-300 radio transceiver. Motorola developed this device for the U.S Military.

  • "Handie talkie"

    "Handie talkie"
    SCR-536 It was the first "handle talkie", produced by Motorola for the U.S.

  • MTS

    MTS
    The Mobile Telephone System (MTS), was the first commercial mobile telephone service. It was created by Bell System and weighed 80 pounds.

  • MTA

    MTA
    The Mobile System A (MTA) was the first partly automatic mobile system for automobiles. It was developed by Ericsson and weighed 88 pounds.

  • IMTS

    IMTS
    The Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS), was a mobile car phone, it was developed by Bell System and weighed 40 pounds.

  • DynaTAC (prototype)

    DynaTAC (prototype)
    Using a prototype of the Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage (DynaTAC) mobile phone, Martin Cooper (former Motorola Vice President), made the first advertised handheld mobile phone call.

  • DynaTAC

    DynaTAC
    It was the first official handheld cellphone commercially available. It was developed by Motorola, weighed under 2 pounds and costed closely $4,000.

  • MicroTAC

    MicroTAC
    Developed by Motorola, it was the first mobile phone with a flip-phone design. It is considered to be the first really pocket phone.

  • IBM Simon

    IBM Simon
    The IBM Simon was possibly the first smartphone. It was a mobile phone, a pager, a fax machine, and a PDA. It contained an address book, clock, calculator, calendar, email, notepad, games, and a touchscreen.

  • StarTAC

    StarTAC
    It was the first clamshell mobile phone and was developed by Motorola.

  • Nokia 9000 Communicator

    Nokia 9000 Communicator
    Developed by Nokia, it was the first cellphone that could be called a mini-computer (despite having limited access to the web). It was the first cellphone to have a full QWERTY keyboard.

  • Nokia 8810

    Nokia 8810
    Develop by Motorola, it was the first cellphone without a stub-antenna or external antenna whip.

  • Nokia 3210

    Nokia 3210
    Developed by Nokia, it was one of the most popular cellphones in history (with over 160 million sold). This device was one of the first to allow picture messages (only preinstalled ones).

  • Nokia 7710

    Nokia 7710
    Developed by Nokia, it was the first cellphone to include Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), providing users with web access for simple devices.

  • Benefon Esc

    Benefon Esc
    Developed by GeoSentric, it was the first cellphone with integrated GPS.

  • VP-201

    VP-201
    Developed by Kyocera, the Visual Phone (VP-201) was the first cellphone with integrated camera. It was originally made as a peer-to-peer video phone.

  • J-SH04

    J-SH04
    Developed by Sharp, it had an integrated camera with a 0.1 megapixel resolution.
    It was also the first commercially available cellphone to have an integrated CCD sensor with the Picture-Mail infrastructure.

  • Danger Hiptop

    Danger Hiptop
    It was one of the first cellphones to have a fully functional web experience and instant messaging client (AIM).

  • Motorola RAZR

    Motorola RAZR
    Very popular camera cellphone.
    50 million units sold by mid- 2006

  • Apple iPhone

    Apple iPhone
    Developed by Apple, it wasn't the first smartphone, but it is considered
    the first to get the user interface right.

  • HTC Dream

    HTC Dream
    It was the first smartphone to run Google's Android OS.

  • HTC EVO 4G

    HTC EVO 4G
    Developed by Sprint, it was the first cellphone to meet 4G standards