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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
Analog Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Advanced Mobile Phone System mobile phone as of 1983. -
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Cell phones between 1983-1996
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http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/ -
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.