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The first telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish inventor and engineer. The first phone call was made was between Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson.
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The train Deustche Reichsbahn between Hamburg and Berlin had the first telephone service on train, only available for 1st class travellers.
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AT&T, an American telecom service, commercialized Mobile Telephone Service. It served 5000 customers with 30000 calls each week. However, it was expensive with $15/month. The call subscriber equipment weighed 36kg.
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A Moscow engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich introduced a range of experimental models of handheld cell phone.
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a Motorola engineer, Martin Cooper, called an opponent telecommunications to notify that he was speaking via a cell phone.
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The first analog cellular networks 1G was first introduced in Chicago, America, and in later years were introduced in Europe and Australia
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the Mobira Senator model, produced by Nokia, weighed 9.8kg. It was a box type with monochrome screen with heavy battery technology.
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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was released and becoem the first commercial handheld cellular phone. It allowed 30 minutes talk and 6 hours standby and able to save 30 phone numbers. The cost: approx $4000.
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the Mobira Cityman 900 was one of the first compact phones compared to earlier models. It weighed approximately 800g
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2G (the Second Generation) operating systems emerged, which led to the big arrival of prepaid mobile phones.
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There was a huge movement in the way people design and upgrade phones. The requirements and demand increased, which made the phone design and functions go to higher level.
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Harri Holkeri, the prime minister of Finland, makes the world's first GSM call from Esplanadi Park, Helsinki, Finland. The network was built by Telenokia and Siemens.
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SMS (Short message service) was first time ever sent in the world, from the UK by Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British engineer. GHe sent the 1st text message via Vodafone's UK network to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone. The message said, "Merry Chistmas."
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IBM Simon is considered to be the world's first smartphone was ever introduced. It had basic settings: calendar, clock, calculator, and also touchscreens, email and QWERTY keyboard. IBM Simon had predictive typing and applications.
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Motorola StarTAC is the world's first clamshell handset and it was inspired by Star Trek commandor.
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The Nokia 5110 was released and it had outstanding battery duration and SNAKE featured. Also in this phone, the first content for phones was downloaded successfully
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The first handset mobile phone was released by BlackBerry. It supported email and limited HTML browsing, the small device featured a monochrome screen.
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The first pre-commercial network with the next generation, 3G, was introduced by DoCoMo, the largest telephone service provider in Japan. It was initially branded Frontier of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA)
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It was sold over 130 million phones and it is the best-selling clamshell handset in history. They were first developed in July 2003 but then released in the market in the third quarter of 2004.
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This BlackBerry model featured Wifi and since then, BlackBerry became a worldwide addiction until mid 2000s, when Apple took over everything.
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It was called "A true smartphone". Nokia N95 has Symbian operating system with 5-megapixel camera and Bluetooth, Wifi. It has 2 way sliding options, which is the new design for phone at that time. Nokia N95 has set the solia platform for smartphones industry to develop.
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At the same time, Japan & South Korea no longer supplied 2G phones
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"It was a Multi-touch device that had its own operating system, iPhone OS. Bringing back the PDS roots of the Newto and the iTunes from the ROCKR, it was a game changer in the cell phone market" (Morrisey, 2010).
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Since the release of the first iPhone, the smartphone market has been totally dominated by Apple, the company which made the massive change to the face of mobile phones history
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at this time, 4G trial was on trial and it removed the circuit switch instead employing an all-IP network, which got rid of the disadvantages of 3G network.
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Apple released 16GB iPhone models that included Assisted GPs, which helps Google Maps and directions
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Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and CEO, announced the new iPhone 4 in WWDC. It was a massive revolution for iPhone as well as cell phone markets. iP4 has new processor, larger battery, 5 mega camera with LED flash, also front-facing camera for video conferencing.
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This phone had outstanding touchscreens and it set a high standard for mobile phone design and portability. Since, mobile phone has been standardized by Apple products.
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It is predicted that smartphone will dominate human's lives and its technology keeps changing every minute with the war between smartphone companies, and smartphone is the biggest invention in technology.
