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Why "CELL" phone?
AT&T, cell phone provider, suggested to disperse the phone service to multiple different location throughout the region. On a coverage map, this held a resemblance of that to "cells" and thus these areas were eventually named cells, making service faster and organized.(Highly similar to the concept of sectors.) Click Here For More Information -
Portability
Motorola Dynatac 8000X was the first truly most portable phone created. The phone took over 15 years to make it to the market and research costed over 100 million dollars. It weighed about 28 ounces and its dimensions were 13 x 1.75 x 3.5 with a brick like shape. Unfortunately it could only be used for about 20 or so minutes before the battery died. Click Here For More Information -
First call
The first company that was able to produce a handheld mobile phone was Motorola. Martin Cooper, a researcher and executive of the Motorola made the first call from the hand held device to his competitive friend Dr. Joel Engels of the Bell Labs Click here For More Information -
Flip Phone
The very fist flip phone first known as "clamshell" was made by Motorola. Its Name "StarTac". Its was revolutionary because it was the first small hand held electronic phone that would fit into your pocket. The whole concept itself was new and exiting that it became and pop culture icon. Click here For More Information -
1st Text Message
A test engineer for the Sema Group, Neil Papworth, sent a the first ever test message from his personal computer to the phone Richard Jarvis and via the Vodafone Network. His first words were "Merry Christmas". This concept grew in popularity like wildfire. Omnipoint Communications was the first text-messaging service established in the US. Click here For More Information -
1st Smart Phone
The first Smartphone was created by IBM, called Simon Personal Communicator. It featured a LCD touchscreen, and a stylus. You could call, receive and send emails, fax, page, write in calendars, address-books, and it featured a world clock. Click here For More Information -
Camera Phone
The First official cell phone was built by Samsung (Sharp Corporations) It was called the J-SH04 and could take photos as well as send them. The phone costed around 500 dollars Click here For More Information -
The iPhone
It included a Multi-Touch gestures, HTML email, Safari web browser, Threaded text messaging, and Youtube. It offered more than any other phone on the market, at was considered to be a luxury phone. That was a start to the new "era". It was the beginning of new ideas and concepts such as social media and free for all software and application, and fast communication. Click Here For More Information
