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Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone and 1878 he made the first phone call. Motorola introduced some of its first cell phones during the 1980s. Those phones were completely different from the devices we have today since from no side they were cost effective and handy.
The first Smartphone was developed by IBM & BellSouth which came out to in public in 1993. These Smartphones are advancing at a very fast pace and are not restricted to just internet browsing or playing games. Now you can do every possible thing with these modern handheld devices.
40 Years!
The first call was made from a mobile
No Bluetooth
First digital-sized mobile phone from Motorola introduced in 1992. This was the first handset that gave the world an idea of Flip Phones.
The International 3200 was crafted to enable mobile phones to use the original analog cell technology. Like its predecessors, 3200s shape and size was similar to a long brick with numeric buttons on the narrow side, along with the earphone and microphone. In Germany, it was called knochen, due to the resemblance in shape between it and a bone.
Motorola introduced a very powerful line of mobile phones in 1992. These phones put out 3 watts of power (as opposed to 0.6 watts that today's cell phones output) which made them popular for truckers, boaters, and people in rural areas. Because of their durability, many of these phones are still in working order today.
Before the StarTAC came along, cell phones were bricks. Motorola wowed the industry with this 3.1 ounce wonder. The handset is best remembered today as being the first clamshell phonea form factor that set the design precedent for years to come.
The StarTAC handset helped drive mainstream cell phone adoption, selling around 60 million units over the course of its long life. The phone also gets points for introducing the vibrating ring.
Nokias
first
high-end
phone was released in 1996 What made it different was the slider form factor. It was made to protect the keypad when kept in
and
could
communicator series from Nokia. A brand name in the series of business optimized mobile phones. On the outside, it appears just like a normal phone & open in clamshell to access the QWERTY keyboard.
EVERYONE had these! Nokia 5110 was the first phone to feature the game snake.
Though this wasnt Nokias first attempt for a business phone, but this time they decided it was more of fashion. The Guardian fashion editor loved it and it won the 'Off the Cuff' (Fashion) Accessory of the Year Award 1998.
Nokia had jumped on a trend that started in the mobile phone accessories market. People were buying new covers for old phones.
Nokia 5110
The lightest and smallest available Nokia phone at that time. Its selling point was based on the customization and design, with removable X-press on covers.
You can find six different colors in the X-Press on covers for your mobile. This phone had the feature of speed dial in which the user can assign name to each key on keypad.
On the lower side of the phone you can find an infra-red port for
wireless communication.
The phone uses SMS (Short Message Service) with predictive text input, with support for major European languages.
They were data-only devices, used by professionals, like lawyers, who needed constant access to their e-mail.
This was the first BlackBerry to feature a built-in phone. Alas, the device
lacked a speaker and a microphone, so you had to use a headset to make calls.
Features which made this phone stand out of the crowd are :
Vibrant color display Built-in camera with flash Compatible with Sprint PCS Business Connection software
speakerphone.
The Hiptop 2, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX (2009) are all manufactured by Sharp Corporation in Japan.
Flip it open, and you're confronted by a vast screen that's bright enough!
definition of a Smartphone.
iPhone is a line of smartphones designed by Apple Inc. This phone runs on Apples iOS mobile operating system.
Apple created the device during a secretive and unprecedented collaboration with AT&T, formerly Cingular Wireless. The development cost of the collaboration was estimated to have been $150 million over a thirty-month period. This phone was immediately listed amongst the best inventions of
2007.
As termed by a press release The Original iPhone has been discontinued when its successor iPhone 3G was released.