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Motorola DynaTAC
Motorola Microtac
Motorola startac
Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available mobile phone. At 1.75 pounds, this phone had 30 minutes of talk and cost $3,995.
Invented in 1989 The MicroTAC introduced an innovative new “flip” design, where the “mouthpiece” folded over the keypad, although the “mouthpiece” was actually located in the base of the phone, along with the ringer. This set the standard and became the model for modern flip phones today.
The Motorola StarTAC was the first successful flip phone, and in many ways, the first successful consumer cell phone. Introduced in 1996, Motorola eventually sold 60 million StarTACs. Weighing in at just 3.1 ounces, and combined with its innovative clamshell design, the StarTAC was a milestone in the trend toward smaller and smaller cell phones.
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Nokia 5110 One of many classic Nokia candybar-style phones, the Nokia 5110 was rugged and had a long battery life. More importantly, you could play Snake on its 47 Ă— 84 pixel screen. The 5110 was also customizable, with replaceable face plates. It became the most popular cellphone at that time.
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Sanyo SCP–5300 Released in 2003, the Sanyo SCP–5300 was one of the first phones to include a camera. It was already clear that digital cameras would replace film cameras, but it wasn’t clear that a camera could fit in a phone. The SCP–5300 could take 640 × 480 pixel photos and store 10 to 15 of them. It had a built-in flash with a range of only three feet. Still, this phone broke ground, and today it is clear how central cameras are to our phones.
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Motorola Razr The Motorola RAZR represented the culmination of the flip phone. Unable or unwilling to experiment with new designs, mobile phone companies continued their push for smaller and smaller phones. With the RAZR, Motorola perfected the flip phone design. At just 0.54 inches thin, the RAZR was as much a fashion device as a cell phone. Announced in 2004, Motorola would eventually sell 130 million RAZRs. However, the RAZRs popularity rapidly declined in the face of a new generation of touchscreen smartphones.
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Blackberry Canadian-based Research in Motion, now BlackBerry, was by far the leading smartphone manufacturer in the 2000s. With their advanced email capabilities, BlackBerry Messenger, and physical keyboards, BlackBerry smartphones were the ultimate business phone. When the iPhone was announced in 2007, many BlackBerry fans scoffed at its lack of a physical keyboard. Now that touchscreen smartphones have proved themselves worthy, BlackBerry has fallen rapidly, with many failed attempts at touchscreen smartphones, and is currently struggling to survive.
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Apple
Android
Windows
When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Apple brought the smartphone to the masses. With its intuitive touchscreen, intelligent sensors, and sleek design, the iPhone has been an incredible success. The iPhone quickly showed just how clunky previous smartphones and flip phones were. While initially lacking some basic features such as copy-and-paste, the iPhone has consistently improved with annual updates to both its hardware and software and runs a mobile-optimized version of OS X, the company’s desktop computing operating system.
The Android juggernaut would begin its climb to the top. Founded in 2003 by Andy Rubin, Android sought to create a modern operating system that would compete with Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BlackBerry. Google bought Android in 2005, and in November 2007, unveiled the Android operating system. The first Android phone, the HTC Dream, was launched almost a year later in October 2008. Android has adapted to its competition, developing an app-based operating system for touchscreens. Android has certainly improved since its clunky early days and is now the leading alternative to Apple’s iOS.
Windows Phone (abbreviated as WP) is a proprietary smartphone operating system developed by Microsoft. It is the successor to Windows Mobile, although it is incompatible with the earlier platform. With Windows Phone, Microsoft created a new user interface, featuring a design language named “Modern” (which was formerly known as “Metro”). Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. [8] It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 8.1, which was released in final form to developers on April 14, 2014 and will be pushed out to all phones running Windows Phone 8 over the coming months, is the latest release of the operating system.
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The future concept of cell phones
NFC
Self-powered phones
Near Field Communication chips already exist inside some smartphones and they’re predicted to get bigger and bigger in the next few years. As the name suggest, NFC allows contactless communication between two devices – a bit like Bluetooth, except that you don’t need to programme the devices to ‘speak’ to each other. The short range of NFC chips (about 4 cm) also means they can be used to transmit information securely. Japan is leading the game when it comes to NFC technology, with Japanese consumers already using their phones as payment cards, hotel keys, airport boarding passes and more.
Thermoelectricity
How it works: Electrons flee from hot to cold, creating a current. When this current crosses from one type of metal to another, it generates a charge. Tap that seam with a wire, and you’ve got electricity.
Piezoelectricity
How it works: Certain materials—quartz, most notably—generate an electric charge when they are compressed, shaken, or otherwise agitated in a way that makes them vibrate at a target frequency.
Biomechanical Energy
How it works: Biomechanical devices use bodies’ motions to move tiny power generators. They often use degenerative force—like the breaking force your knee generates to straighten your leg each step.
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