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Motorola DynaTAC (1985) the first truly ‘mobile’ mobile phone-before the DynaYAC, cellphones were limited to cars, as they needed briefcase-sized units to go with them changed that in the 19880s, McKinsey and Co forecast a world market of 900,000 phones by the year 2000, Siemens C1 Radio Shack 17-050, Phillips PRC30E, Nokia Mobira Cityman 1320, Motorola MicroTac 9800X. Today, 900,000 handsets are sold every three days AEG Teleport, Siemens S1, Ericson GH198, and Siemens S3 Compact, Motorola MicroTAC Elite VIP, Motorola MicroTAC International 8700, Pioneer PCC-D700, AEG D1-957, Motorola MicroTAC MicroDigital, Motorola TX770, Nokia 1610, Nokia 2110.
Motorola StarTAC (1996) the first ‘clamshell’ hadset, inspired by the communicator from the original series of Star Trek. Also the first phone to feature a vibrate function. Nokia 6020(aka 6120) Siemens S10, in 1998, more mobile phones were sold worldwide than cars and PCs combined Siemens S11E, Siemens C10, Nokia 5110, Siemens S10 Active, Motorola M3788, Alcatel One Touch Max, Siemens S25.
Nokia 7110(1999), this handset was inspired by the modified Nokia 8110 from the first Matrix movie, which in reality did not ‘flick’ open. This one did. The 7100 was also the first mobile phone with WAP Motorola TimePort. Nokia 3210(2000) the first handset to feature an internal antenna, and the first with T9 Predictive text Nokia 3310, Siemens A35, Nokia 8210, Sony Ericson T28s, Alcatel OT710, Sagem MW3026, Nokia 5510, Siemens A50.
Harp J-SH04 (2001) the first popular cellphone to feature an internal camera released in Japan in 2001. These days you had be lucky to find a phone without one BlackBerry 6230, Nokia 5150, Siemens CL50, Samsung SGH-T100, Siemnes Xelibri 1, Nokia 5210, Alcatel OT715, Siemens Xelbri 3, and Siemens Xelbri 4.
Nokia 1100 (2003) the billionth Nokia handset ever sold was a Nokia 1100, purchased in Nigeria-over 200 million have been sold to date, designed to be dust-proof for citizens of developing countries. Nokia N-Gage, Nokia 3650, Nokia 7320, Motorola E380, Sagem MYV-65, Otek 7070, 17 million text messages were sent world wide in 2000 Samsung Z130, 250 billion were sent in 2001 Motorola V80, 500billion in 2004 Motorola E1060, Motorola V3 and 1.9 trillion in 2007 BlackBerry 7130c, HTC p4350, Nokia 6070, Nokia 3250, Pantech GB300, Nokia N73, BlackBerry 7100t, in the USA, 130 million handsets are discarded every year. T-mobile Sidekick Slide 4.
02 XDA Nova, in Europe, the number is closer to 100 million a year. Nokia 3310 Classic, Samsung Z710, Nokia 5510, Nokia N81 35% if US users claim they never use SMS text messaging. Samsung Armani, Sony Ericson K200, Nokia N93, BlackBerry Pearl 8100, around 40% of Americans own a mobile phone, compared with 81% of Britons LG 260, Nokia 7900, 02 Cocoon, Sony Ericson C9029, Asus p320, Samsung F520.
Nokia N95 (2007), possibly the most feature-rich phone to date 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, SMP camera, Bluetooth, MP3 player, UPnP, Java, Internet, Flash, RSS, TV-out, accelerometer, 8GB Internal Memory, Apple iPhone (2007) the first multi-touchscreen phone. Apple is first cellphone, strong on design aesthetic and ease of use an instant hit in the USA. Several hundred people in New York camped outside the Apple store over 100 hours before the phone is release and the feature…?
Music credits “Zongamin Title” Bongo (Ed Banger, 2005)
“Telephone Shopping” Yoko Kanno (Victor Entertainment, 1998)
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