The cell phone is one gadget about which the whole world is going crazy. Although the concept of cell phones was unknown to many of us in the past decade but now cellphone is a must have gadget, and its capabilities are growing day by day.

But how did it all started and progressed to such  a huge extent ? we will now go into all the technological evolutions the cellphone went through.

1982 : World’s First Cellphone

Motorola launches first cell phone in the market. The DynaTac 8000X weighs 2 pounds (heavy !) and sells for $4000. Its battery was capable enough to provide one hour of talk time and the phone memory could hold upto 30 numbers.

1993 : World’s First Communicator

Bell and IBM introduced the Simon Personal Communicator. It had multiple capabilities like phone, pager, calculator, address book, fax machine and e-mail device with a hefty $900 price tag. This phone initiated a new field of cellphones called smart phones.

1996 : First Flip phone

The Motorola StarTAC begins the trend of  fashion phones having full functions and style. Weighing only 3.1 ounces, it was a real sleek and sexy phone of its time. It was also the first phone to have a vibrate function.

1999 : First phone to have WAP

Nokia introduces the 7110, the first phone to have WAP. It became Nokia’s best selling phone in 90s.

2000 : First phone to have internal Antenna

Nokia 3210 was the first phone to have an internal receiving antenna. All the previous phones had a antenna coming out of the phone.

2000 : Fist phone to have Bluetooth Capability

Mobile phone vendor Ericsson introduced world’s first Bluetooth mobile phone, the tri band & WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) capable T36, at the CommunicAsia conference. Blue Tooth became a vital part of all the mobile phones of the future.

2000 : First Windows Pocket PC

The Wallaby, a phone manufactured by HTC, and sold under various names such as O2 XDA (Oxygen), Qtek-1010, Siemens SX56, T Mobile MDA and many other names was the first Windows Pocket PC.

2000 : First camera Phone

Sharp J-SH04 became the first popular camera phone of the world. It had an internal CCD camera. It was released in japan in 2001. in those days you would be a very lucky person to have this phone.

2001 : Worlds first phone having QWERTY keyboard

The Handspring Treo 180 becomes the world’s first phone to include a full QWERTY keyboard, made messaging and e-mailing alot easier.

2002 : First BlackBerry PDA

The Blackberry 5810 becomes the first Blackberry Personal Data Assistant to include voice capability. However, it lacked both a speaker and a microphone, so a headset was required.

2003 : a Billionth Nokia phone sold

Nokia 1100 was the billionth Nokia phone sold, Purchased in Nigeria. It was designed to be dust proof for citizens of developing countries, 200 million Nokia 1100 have been sold to date.

2007 : World’s First Multi Touch Screen Phone.

iPhone became world’s first phone to have a multi-touch screen. It brought a revolution in the cellphone industry, turning the future of phones towards a touchscreen realm.

2008 : World’s First WiMax enabled phone.

HTC intoduces world’s first WiMax phone, The MAX 4G. WiMax has a wireless speed that far surpasses the connection capabilities of HSDPA 3G, which have a limitation at no more than 7.2Mb/s. The phone also has a 3.8in, 800 x 480 display and supports Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

2009 : World’s First Projector phone

Samsung’s i7410 touchscreen phone is capable of projecting a 50-inch image under ambient light conditions and went on sale earlier in February at a $500. It will hit the European market in April or May. It uses TI (Texas Instruments) DLP projector technology.

What will we have in the future ? well to know this you must see a post here.

The cellphone industry is progressing by leaps and bounds and it is the center of most of the technological innovations.

Originally posted 2009-04-29 07:12:10. Republished by Old Post Promoter