The Evolution of Wireless Handsets

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The Evolution of Wireless Handsets
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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X  (1983)

• The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X started the wireless
  communication revolution. It was also known as
  brick phone. suffered mostly from low battery
  life and signal loss issues.

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Siemens Mobiltelefon C1 (1985 )

• Siemens Mobiltelefon C1 entered the market at
  about same time as Motorola. It was bulky like
  hell but had good battery time and strong
  reception. Due to its briefcase size, it was
  more of a car phone.

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Motorola MicroTAC 9800X (1989)

• Motorola hit the market by storm with its first
  slim, flip style wireless phone working on analog
  technology. MicroTACs design dominated the phone
  market for a long time to come after that. It had
  a nice 8 digit LED display that let you do most
  of the tasks. This was the first wireless phone
  adopted by masses.

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Siemens S1 (1992)

• Siemens S1 was the first wireless phone with a 4
  line LCD display and many great features
  including long range and good battery life.

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Nokia 1610 (1995)

• Nokia became market leader by release of Its
  model 1610 as It offered over 7 hours of talk
  time and up to 200 hours of standby time. It also
  featured the new(at that time) user friendly
  Nokia interface for wireless phones. over all a
  great phone at that time.. I used to have one of
  those. we used to show them off at parties. Try
  to take one of these to a party ha ha ha..

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Nokia 8110 (1996)

• Then came the trendy Nokia 8110 aka The Matrix
  Phone that slides open. It looked very trendy at
  that time. It was the first phone people bought
  as a fashion statement. It was geared toward the
  higher end of market and became very popular
  after being featured in the Matrix, the movie.

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Motorola StarTAC (1996)

• Motorola replied soon with its first clam shell
  handset that was smallest phone at that time. It 
  was hugely inspired by Star trek series
  communicator. It was also the first phone with
  vibrator function. It was probably the start of
  handset wars. the industry never looked back
  after that.

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Nokia 7110 (1999)

• Inspired by first of matrix movie Nokia 7110 was
  first one that flick opened using a spring load.
  This was first phone with WAP browser and dynamic
  memory allocation among contacts, calendar and
  messages. They called this phone almost a smart
  phone but now,we can easily call it start of
  mobile Internet era. Full Specs here

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Nokia 3210, 3310, 8210, (2000)

• Nokia 3210 was first phone with Internal
  Antenna. Nokia 3310 is still very popular set in
  second hand wireless phone markets. the wireless
  phone is available both in AMPs and GSM models.
  Its snake game is world famous and people can
  still be found playing with it in subways.

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Blackberry 6230, (2003)

• Blackberry started another revolution by bringing
  personal organizers and phones in one product.
  this phone had full QWERTY keyboard, Browser,
  Email, Note pad and other applications for
  business users. It had 16 MB internal memory.
  this phone can still be bought on eBay. Phones
  kept on getting smarter and smarter from here.

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Motorola V3 (2005)

• Camera and Music became essential feature of a
  wireless phone. Wireless phones became smart
  phones. Wireless phones became a fashion
  accessory. people wear them like glasses,
  jewelry. Motorola V3 changes the whole concept of
  cutting edge design in wireless phones. It
  remained the phone of choice until Apples iPhone
  took the fashion segment of market from it.
  Motorola never came up with anything close to V3
  again.

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Apples iPhone (2007)

• Apples iPhone was an instant hit all over the
  world as it was  first multi-touch wireless phone
  with sleek, sexy design. It was so popular that
  they had to put a limit on purchase, (max 2 per
  person) when it launched.