Cell phones:From Brick to Sleek

Cell Phone: From Brick to Slick Dr. Martin Cooper The first call ona mobile phone was made. Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, 1973 made the first analogue mobile phone call using a heavy prototype model. He called Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. Cooper is the first 1983 Cell phone battery: Nickel Cadmlum inventor named on 'Radio 1.Heavy and large. This subsequently increased the cell phone size. Telephone System" filed on October 17, 1973 with the US Patent Office and later 2.Users have to empty the battery fully before recharging it. issued as US Patent 3,906,166. It was commer- cially produced in 1983 1989 3.Produced heat while using. MicroTAC 9800X 4.Cadmium being a toxic product posed heath issues for the users and it was also difficult to dump after use. • Released by Motorola • The smallest and lightest phone available at the time • Fits into a shirt pocket • Features an 8-character dot-matrix red LED display ·An innovative new 'flip" design Nokla 1011 The first mass-produced GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone. 1992 Motorola Bag Phone 1992 This phone used 3 watts of power wheras today's phones use .06 IBM Simon The first smartphone. 1993 Mova N103 Hyper The first commercial mobile phone with customizable ring tones. 1996 1997 Nokla 8810 The first cell phone without an external whip or stub antenna and the first true Slemens S10 The world's first phone with a color 1998 "candy bar" phone in the modern sense. screen. Cell phone battery: Nickel Metal Hydride 1999 1.Made from the non-toxic materials Benefon Esc! This was the 2.Thinner and lighter than the NICD Nokla 3210 One of the 3.Ailed to solve the issue of the heat produc- tion and flabbiness of the batteries after repeated use first instance of most popular mobile a GPS being integrated into . a mobile phone. phones in history was the Nokia 3210, with over 160 million sold. 2000 GPS 2001 Sharp J-SH04 The J-SH04, released by -Mobile in Japan offered Ericsson T39 The first Nokla 7110 Samsung SPH-M100 Bluetooth- The first mobile capable phone. phone with a WAP browser a mere 0.1 megapixel resolution Uproar The first cell phone to have MP3 music needed to MP support Internet and Web appli- capabilities. cations such as 2004 email and web browsing. Cell phone battery: Lithlum lon Batterles Motorola A845 The first dual-mode UMTS 1.0ffers the longest talk time /WCDMA phone for the North America market. 2.Shorter recharge time Motorola RAZR Fueled by turbo data speeds, the A845's two- way video calling feature brings you face-to-face with family, friends, and colleagues. 3.Available in wide variety of shapes and sizes The first mobile র phone marketed as a 4.No longer needs to be emptied before recharging. 5.Lowest percentage of self discharge rate being 5-10% per month, "fashion" phone, selling 50 million units by mid-2006. 2005 Treo 700w The first Palm smartphone to operate outside of the Palm OS and powered by Windows Mobile. 2007 Apple IPhone It's a powerful pocket computer, a game machine, and a multimedia-playback device and gives instant, high-speed 2010 LG Optimus 2X It holds the Guinness World Record for being the first mobile phone to use a access to the Web, email, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. dual-core processor NVIDIA, TerreStar Genus TEGRA || First Satellite SmartPhone 2011 LG Optimus 3D P920 The world's first full 3D smartphone promising to change the way you interact with your phone. This high-performance smart- phone lets you record, view and share 3D content Apple IPhone45 HTC EVO 4G The first to have The world's first 4G mobile phone. It runs the Google Android 2.2 operating system with HTC Sense built 10 08 Apple A5 (dual core) and two antennas (both GSM and CDMA) on all 73 previous iPhones. without glasses. on top of it. Sources: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cel-phone-design-between-1983-2009/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/131450/in_pictures_a_history_of_cell_phones.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/173033/evolution_of_the_cell_phone.html http://ginva.com/2011/05/the-evolution-of-the-cell-phone between-1938-2011/ Wilson Electronics, Inc. http://blog.smartphoneslab.com/evolution-of-cell-phone-battery/ http://gizmodo.com/5500343/sprints-htc-evo-the-first-ever-4g-phone-meet-the-new-terrific Improving your Cellular Signal pleiela