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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
Analog Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Advanced Mobile Phone System mobile phone as of 1983 -
Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
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. -
Motorola International 3200
The first digital hand-size mobile telephone. -
Nokia 1011
This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was produced until 1994. -
BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator
The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo. -
Motorola StarTAC
The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell. -
Nokia 8110
Alternately called the “banana phone”, this phone was popularized in the first Matrix movie. -
Nokia 9000 Communicator
The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU. -
Nokia 9110i
This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone. -
Sony Ericsson P800
This smartphone featured a touchscreen and up to 128mb of memory. -
PalmOne Treo 600
One of the “it” gadgets from 2003-2004 until BlackBerries overtook them in popularity. Three or four days between charges and a successful merger of phone, PDA, and camera made this the business tool of choice. -
Motorola Razor V3
When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry. -
iPhone
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. -
iPhone 3G
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. -
iPhone 4
The iPhone 4 featured a higher-resolution 960×640 "Retina Display", a VGA front-facing camera for video calling and other apps, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 720p video capture. -
iPhone 5
iPhone 5 features the dual-core A6 processor, increases the size of the Retina display to 4 inches, and replaces the 30-pin connector with an all-digital Lightning connector. -
iPhone 5C/5S
The iPhone 5S features the dual-core 64-bit A7 processor, an updated camera with a larger aperture and dual-LED flash, and the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, integrated into the home button. iPhone 5C features the same A6 chip as the iPhone 5, along with a new backside-illuminated FaceTime camera and a new casing made of polycarbonate. -
BlackBerry Storm
Designed to be a direct competitor to the iPhone 3G and other 3G smartphones; RIM’s first device to do away with the QWERTY keyboard and incorporate a touchscreen.
