-
Period: to
Cellphone history
-
Motorola DynaTAC
A full charge took roughly 10 hours, and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers. It was priced at $3,995 in 1984, its commercial release year, equivalent to $9,410 in 2017. DynaTAC was an abbreviation of "Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage." -
MOTOROLA MICROTAC 9800X
The first MicroTACs were known as the Motorola 9800X, a continuation of the numerical name Motorola gave their phones in the 1980s. The MicroTAC was designed to fit into a shirt pocket. -
MOTOROLA INTERNATIONAL 3200
The Motorola International 3200 was the first digital hand-held mobile telephone introduced in 1992, along with the more compact 5200, 7200 and 7500 "flip phones" introduced in 1994. It was preceded by the International 1000 and 2000 GSM phones, quite big (small portable suitcase), and although being the first GSM portable phones, they were not GSM certified, therefore couldn't be officially connected to the network (first to be certified was Orbitel TPU 900) -
NOKIA 7650
The first Nokia phone to bring GPRS internet services to the mass market. The 3510i, pictured here, was a more advanced version with a color screen. -
SONY ERICSSON P800
This smartphone featured a touchscreen and up to 128mb of memory. -
SANYO SCP-5300
First phone to have a camera -
BLACKBERRY PEARL
The first BlackBerry device with a camera and media player. -
LG CHOCOLATE KG800
The KG800 is a 'slider' style phone that reveals heat-sensitive touch buttons on its face, which activate upon sliding the phone open -
IPHONE
The Iphone came 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 is internally similar to its predecessor, but included several new hardware features, such as GPS, 3G data and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA.