5 moments in smartphone history
Since then, cellphones have been rapidly evolving into the
high-tech multitasking devices we use today. Here is a look at some of the most
famous developments in mobile phone history.
First commercial cellphone
A decade after Cooper made that first call, the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission approved Motorola's DynaTAC phone for public use. In
1984, the first DynaTACs became available for consumers.
Large, outdated cellphones can be spotted in older films and
TV shows, while new, high-tech gadgets are frequently used in recent flicks.
Here's a look back at some famous mobile devices that made appearances on the
big and small screens.
In the TV show Saved by the Bell , character Zack Morris hauled around a clunky cellphone believed to be a Motorola DynaTAC .
The Nokia 8110 was popularized after it was spotted in the
1999 movie The Matrix.
The Nokia 7650 was featured in the 2002 movie
Minority Report featuring Tom Cruise.
In 2003, The Matrix trilogy switched to a Samsung SPH-N270.
The handheld device weighed 0.8 kilograms and its rechargeable battery was reported to last about eight hours, according to a company information sheet from the 1970s. Pressing an "off-hook" button — so-called to symbolize picking up a standard telephone from its base — would start a phone call, while pressing an "on-hook" button would end the conversation.
Motorola estimated service costs would run from $60 to $100 US a month. The company compared operating costs to those of an average car telephone service.
In the statement, the company said it believed people would continue using their car phones, and cellphones would "absolutely not" replace standard telephones.
The original smartphone
In 1993, Bellsouth and IBM announced their creation of the
Simon personal communicator phone, touted as the world's first smartphone.
Simon was designed to be a cellphone first and a computer second, according to
the product's media release.
The device, with a $899 suggested pricetag, boasted such
features as:
· A pager
· E-mail.
· A stylus for writing on the screen, with handwriting
reflected as-is for faxes.
· A complete keypad featuring letters and numbers.
· A calendar that could be updated automatically from a remote
computer.
· Only 2,000 of the devices, which weighed less than 0.5
kilograms, were made.
Cellphone cameras
In 2002, the first phones with built-in cameras became
publicly available, including the Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300.
The Nokia phone boasted "a large 176x208 pixel colour display," according to a media release at the time. The Sanyo version offered three user-controlled tones, white balance and zoom.
Today's iPhone 5, in contrast, offers an eight-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and built-in face detection.
BlackBerry's first integrated phone
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· Email.
· Texting.
· A web browser.
· BlackBerry Messenger service, allowing for web-based
communication between BlackBerry users.
iPhone launch
In January 2007, Apple launched its first iPhone. The
company described the phone as combining three products into one handheld
device: a mobile phone, an iPod and a wireless communication device.
One of the original iPhone's more revolutionary features was that it allowed
users to command the device using only their fingers on a touch screen.Other new functions included a visual voicemail box, touchpad keyboard, a photo library that could be linked to a remote computer and an almost nine-centimetre display for watching movies and television.
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