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First Mobile Phone call was made
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 1.1kg and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge. -
Mobile Phones first released for sale
In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost £2639 ($3995). In the very early days of the mobile space handsets weren’t designed with consumers in mind. You’d need a couple of thousand pounds to get hold of one, and even then performance wasn’t great. Back then, mobile phones were designed with the likes of business men in mind. -
First 'handheld' Mobile Phone made by Nokia
Even at the start of the 1990s this was still the case despite Nokia and NEC entering the fray. Nokia’s first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900, launched in 1989 and weighed just 800g – a huge improvement over 1982’s 9.8kg Mobira Senator model. 1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability, with mobile devices gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers for the first time. -
First Smartphone goes on sale
In 1992 IBM showcased the IBM Simon at the 1992 COMDEX (Computer Dealers' Exhibition); in doing so they introduced the world to the first smartphone and it was just the kind of enormous brick one would expect from the first phone/computer mashup. They first went on sale 2 years later in 1994. -
First Nokie 8110 "The Banana Phone" released
Alternately called the “banana phone”, this phone was popularized in the first Matrix movie. released in 1996. Its distinctive styling was the first example of a 'slider' form factor. Initially priced at a little bit less than €1000, it was designed for the business market and was one of the smallest and lightest phones on the market, but still had better battery life than its predecessor Nokia 2110. -
The first clamshell cellular phone
Motorola StarTAC -The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell. It was released on January 3, 1996. In 2005, PC World put StarTAC at #6 in The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years. The StarTAC was among the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption; approximately 60 million StarTACs were sold. -
Nokia introduces lighter Mobile Phone
This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone. -
The Nokia 8210 was released
the smallest, lightest Nokia mobile phone on the market. Its selling point was based on its design and customization, with removable Xpress-on covers. Six differently coloured Xpress-on covers are available, as well as many third party ones. The Nokia "82XX" series had several design flaws, among them a tendency to develop "screen fade" in which the connector for the display would shrink and figures on the display would become so dim that it was impossible to read them -
First Nokia with colour display.
he first Nokia phone to bring GPRS internet services to the mass market.N okia 3510i, introduced the same year, was one of the first phones with a color display.GPRS is used for data transmission and mobile Internet WAP service. The Nokia 3510i model supports Java 2 ME that makes it possible for users to download and use Java applications (not supported by 3510), background images and polyphonic ringtones. The phone supports SMS and MMS messaging -
World's best selling handheld Mobile the Nokia 1100
This extremely popular design has sold over 200 million since its introduction in 2003. This phone is rumoured to have sold for up to $32,000 in online criminal communities due to its ability to intercept one-time banking passwords. It was targeted towards developing countries and users who do not require advanced features beyond making calls and SMS text messages, alarm clock, reminders, etc. -
Motorola Razor V3 introduced
When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry. Because of its striking appearance and thin profile, it was initially marketed as an exclusive fashion phone, but within a year, its price was lowered and it was wildly successful, selling over 50 million units by July 2006. Over the Razr's four-year run, the V3 model sold more than 130 million units, becoming the best-selling clamshell phone in the world to date. -
First Apple iPhone released
The original iPhone was released in June 2007 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.thousands of people were reported to have waited outside Apple and AT&T retail stores days before the device's launch; with many stores reporting stock shortages within an hour -
iPhone 4 released
The iPhone 4 introduced a new hardware design to the iPhone line, which Apple's CEO Steve Jobs touted as the thinnest smartphone in the world at the time. The iPhone 4 also introduced Apple's new high-resolution "Retina Display"; while maintaining the same physical size and display resolution as its precursors, its liquid crystal display had a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch. The iPhone 4 also introduced Apple's A4 system-on-chip, along with iOS 4 and Facetime -
iPhone 5 released
It is the sixth generation of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone 4S and preceding the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.The iPhone 5 featured major design changes in comparison to its predecessor. These included an aluminum-based body which was thinner and lighter than previous models, a taller screen with a nearly 16:9 aspect ratio, the Apple A6 system-on-chip, LTE support, and Lightning, a new compact dock connector which replaces the 30-pin design used by previous iPhone models. -
iPhone 6 released
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus include a number of changes over its predecessor, including models with larger 4.7 and 5.5 inches (120 and 140 mm) displays, a faster processor, upgraded cameras, improved LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity, and support for a near-field communications-based mobile payments offering.Pre-orders of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded four million within its first 24 hours of availability—an Apple record.
