Here, we take a stroll down memory lane to chart the evolution of the mobile phone, from its humble beginnings with the Motorola DynaTAC in 1983 to the Apple iPhone 3GS in 2009!
Happy Snap: Sharp J-SH04 (2000)
Sharp's J-SH04 was the world's first camera phone and was launched in Japan in 2000. Available on the J-Phone network in Japan, this long device featured an integrated 110,000 pixel CMOS image sensor and a 256 colour display.
An email delight: RIM BlackBerry 5810 (2002)
RIM's first BlackBerry mobile phone was the 5810 - previously RIM had produced data based organisers that handled email and organiser features, but lacked phone capabilities.
The 5810 simply added a mobile phone to RIM's existing feature set, though it lacked a speaker and a microphone and therefore needed the use of a headset to operate.
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NEXT PAGE: The Palm Treo 600 and the Nokia N-Gage
- We look at just how the mobile phone has evolved
- Nokia's Mobira Cityman 900 and the first GSM phone
- The first smartphone and Motorola opens the world of flip
- Nokia's 9000 and 5110
- Snap happy
- The Palm Treo 600 and the Nokia N-Gage
- Slide-out QWERTY keyboards and a razor-thin phone
- Motorola's ROKR E1 and the MOTOFONE F3
- Touchscreen's and 3x optical zoom on phones
- Google Android and Palm's resurection
Comments
Stephen T said: As a matter of public record the Nokias 101 was not the worlds first commercially available GSM mobile phone WWWGSMHistorycom has the official list of all GSM mobiles type-approved in 1992 The Motorola International 3200 was approved on the 3rd Sept 1992 whereas the Nokia 1011 was not approved until the 14th October 1992 A more reasonable claim for the Nokia 1011 is that it was Nokias first GSM hand portable and began the competitive race that Nokia ended up winning
Michael W said: Ive still got both my DynaTAC based phonethe Motorola 8500x and my Nokia 9000The Motorola had superb clarity whilst the Nokia was a real work tool with texts fax and email but a battery life of only 12 hoursI wont throw them awaythey are real life ornaments -