Mobile phones

Cellphone Timeline

By ggswag4life

  • Radio-Based Cellphones

    Radio-Based Cellphones
    During the Second World War, military forces around the world made use of radio telephony links. Starting in 1940, hand-held radio receivers had been widely available, opening up communications in battlefields around the world.

  • First commercial cellphone

    First commercial cellphone
    In 1984, the first DynaTACs became available for consumers
    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.

  • The Original Smartphone

    The Original Smartphone
    Bellsouth and IBM announced their creation of the Simon personal communicator phone, world's first smartphone.
    The device, with a $899 suggested price tag, 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.

  • BlackBerry's First Integrated Phone

    BlackBerry's First Integrated Phone
    The Waterloo, Ontario based smartphone giant, formerly called Research in Motion, unveiled its first integrated phone in 2003. Part of BlackBerry's Quark series, the BlackBerry 6210 was the company's first device to offer:
    • Email.
    • Texting.
    • A web browser.
    • BlackBerry Messenger service, allowing for web-based communication between BlackBerry users.

  • iPhone Launch

    iPhone Launch
    Apple combined three products into one handheld device: a mobile phone, an iPod, and a wireless communication device.
    One of the original iPhone's 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
    - An almost nine-centimetre display for watching movies and television.