The Awesome Evolution Of Mobile Phones (Photos)
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 1.1kg and measured in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge.
In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost $3995 (N794,945)
Even at the start of the 1990s this was still the case despite Nokia and NEC entering the fray. Nokia’s first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900, launched in 1989 and weighed just 800g – a huge improvement over 1982’s 9.8kg Mobira Senator model.
1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability, with mobile devices gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers for the first time. By the late-1990s, mobile devices were fast becoming the norm thanks to the following handsets…
1997 – Nokia 6110
Three games: Memory, Snake, Logic
Calculator, clock and calendar
Currency converter
Works as a pager
Profile settings
4 colours
1997 – Motorola StarTAC
Inspired by the communicator from Star Trek, this bad boy was the world’s first clamshell handset. Another first for Motorola.
1998 – Nokia 5110
Excellent battery, slim by 1998’s standards, and it also featured Snake. What more could a 90s consumer want?
Features:
Dimensions 48 x 132 x 31 mm
Battery 900 mAh NiMH
Display 47 x 84 B/W
1999 – BlackBerry 850
The BlackBerry 850 was the first handset released under the BlackBerry brand. Ten years later, RIM would be crowned the fastest growing company on the planet.
And we all know what happened post-2010.
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In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost $3995 (N794,945)
Even at the start of the 1990s this was still the case despite Nokia and NEC entering the fray. Nokia’s first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900, launched in 1989 and weighed just 800g – a huge improvement over 1982’s 9.8kg Mobira Senator model.
1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability, with mobile devices gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers for the first time. By the late-1990s, mobile devices were fast becoming the norm thanks to the following handsets…
1997 – Nokia 6110
Features:
Calculator, clock and calendar
Currency converter
Works as a pager
Profile settings
4 colours
1997 – Motorola StarTAC
Inspired by the communicator from Star Trek, this bad boy was the world’s first clamshell handset. Another first for Motorola.
1998 – Nokia 5110
Excellent battery, slim by 1998’s standards, and it also featured Snake. What more could a 90s consumer want?
Features:
Dimensions 48 x 132 x 31 mm
Battery 900 mAh NiMH
Display 47 x 84 B/W
1999 – BlackBerry 850
And we all know what happened post-2010.
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