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BlackBerry 7270
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The first mobile phone call was made
On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper made the very fist mobile phone call ever recorded in history. Cooper was a senior engineer at Motorola. The first call he made was to a revival telecommunications company on a prototype mobile weighing 1.1kg and measured 228.6x127x44.4mm. This particular prototype allowed 30 minutes of talk-time and needed 10 hours to charge. -
Motorola releases first commercial mobile phone
Motorola released their first commercial mobile phone in 1983 and it retailed at £2639 ($3995). The phone itself was named the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X and had 30 minutes of talk time, six hours of standby and could store 30 phone numbers in its contact list. Back then, these mobile handsets were designed with the likes of businessmen-types who drove jaguars and flew Concord (Goodwin, 2015). -
The upward spiral of the mobile phone
1990-1995 proved the spiral of mobile phones rising and the increasing numbers of phone in the hands of regular consumers. By late 1990s, mobile phones were more prominent in society (Goodwin, 2015). -
Nokia 6110
Features: Three games: Memory, Snake, Logic
Calculator, clock and calendar
Currency converter
Pager
Profile settings
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Motorola StarTAC
This particular device was inspired and modelled after the communicator in Star Trek. This was the worlds first clamshell mobile phone. -
Nokia 5110
Nokia improved their battery and slimmed down this mobile phone according to 1998 standards.
Dimensions 48 x 132 x 31 mm
Battery 900 mAh NiMH
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BlackBerry 850
The first mobile phone to be released by BlackBerry (Goodwin, 2015). -
Nokia 3310
The infamous 'indestructible nokia' (Goodwin, 2015). -
Samsung SGH-T100
The Samsung SGH-T100 was the first phone to ever use a thin-film transistor active matric LCD display (Goodwin, 2015). -
BlackBerry 5810
The BlackBerry 5810 had email and a QWERTY keyboard. -
Motorola Razr V3
The Motorola Razr V3 was the 'fashion phone' between 2004 and 2006 and was the best-selling clamshell phone in history (Goodwin, 2015). -
Nokia N95
The first smartphone. The Nokia N95 ran on Symbian, was packed in a 332MHz Texas Instrument CPU, featured 160MB of RAM as well featuring a 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi (Goodwin, 2015). -
LG Shine
Features: Dimensions: 99.8 x 50.6 x 13.8mm
Weight: 118g
Operating system: Java MIDP 2.0
CPU: ARM9 115 MHz
Memory: 50 MB Internal, microSD (TransFlash) external memory card slot
Battery: 800mAh Li-Ion
Display: 240 x 320, 2.2-inch Display 262K-color TFT LCD
Camera: 2.0 megapixels + Autofocus
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Apple iPhone 3G
This one needs no introduction. Apple iPhones changed the face of the mobile world forever. Apple helped make touchscreen the norm, and excelled in overall design and finish (Goodwin, 2015).
