![]() Nokia's answer to the Game Boy advance, this phone/games system had a couple of award winning titles before it succumbed to its clunky interface design. 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. This extremely popular design has sold over 200 million since its introduction in 2003. Despite the low quality images it produced, it was the first. The 6310i quickly gained popularity in the corporate world for its simplicity and long battery life. It featured an LCD screen and internet connectivity through GPRS. This smartphone featured a touchscreen and up to 128mb of memory. This was the first Nokia set to feature a built-in camera and was featured in the movie Minority Report. The 3510i, pictured here, was a more advanced version with a colour screen. ![]() The first Nokia phone to bring GPRS internet services to the mass market. Siemens's first ever GPRS mobile phone with 360kb of internal memory - high at the time. This was Ericsson's first handset with a colour screen. ![]() This diminutive entry from Ericsson was the height of a cigarette. This tiny handset was the first Bluetooth-capable phone. This phone contained premium features not normally found on handsets of the time, such as Infrared, a fully functional calendar and a FM Radio. This phone featured a full QWERTY keyboard. A version of this phone was released in China that allowed Chinese character SMS. One of the first phones with a WAP browser. This popular phone sold 126 million models, and was particularly popular in Europe. The R380 featured a black and white touchscreen, partially covered by a flip. The internal antenna and predictive T9 text messaging sold approximately 160 million of these phones. The Uproar was the first cell phone to have MP3 music capabilities. This was the first instance of a GPS being integrated into a mobile phone, and was sold mostly in Europe. This phone was known for its durability and splash-proof interchangeable casing. The first mobile phone with a WAP browser. ![]() This phone was loved for its customizable design, but hated for its screen fade. This cell phone was the most popular consumer model at the time of its release and for some time afterwards. This iteration of Nokia's Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone. The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.Īlternately called the "banana phone", this phone was popularized in the first Matrix movie. The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo. It was produced until 1994.ġ993 BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. The first digital hand-size mobile telephone. Up until its release, most cellular phones were installed as car phones due to the inability to fit them into a jacket pocket. Car phones and some handhelds that were the size of a small briefcase were in use in the 1970's and 1980's, but since this is more about design than function we chose not to include them here.Īnalog Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Advanced Mobile Phone System mobile phone as of 1983. The list does not include any phones that were not portable handhelds. This has led to a revolution in 3G phones from 2007 until now, with more due to come out in 2009. North America also had a spotty 3G network that has only really been revamped recently in order to deal with increasing demands for faster loading speeds from mobile customers, whereas Asia and most of Europe have had proper 3G networks in place for some time. You can always see what is coming to store shelves in the next six months to a year by looking at the models that are currently available in Japan. Mobile phones are just now beginning to be as vital to North Americans as they have been to Asians. We invite you to post your faves in the comments section if they are not listed here. We have tried, wherever possible, to include the most popular phones and the phones that were "firsts" for a particular feature, but may have missed out on your favorite phones due to the sheer number of models that are out there. We've picked a few of the more popular and unusual ones to take you through the history of this device that most of us consider a part of our everyday lives. There are thousands of models of cell phones that have hit the streets between 1983 and now. Cell phones have evolved immensely since 1983, both in design and function.įrom the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie "Wall Street", to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the thousands applications available from the Apple Store. ![]()
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