1973-2013

Presentation by MobilePundits
History of Mobile Phones

 Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone and 1878 he

made the first phone call.

 Motorola introduced some of its first cell phones during the

1980s.

 Those phones were completely different from the devices we

have today since from no side they were cost effective and

handy.
 The first Smartphone was developed by IBM &

BellSouth which came out to in public in 1993.

 These Smartphones are advancing at a very fast pace

and are not restricted to just internet browsing or playing

games.

 Now you can do every possible thing with these modern

handheld devices.
40 Years!

 The first call was made from

a mobile phone was made

40 years ago!

 Mobile phones have come a

long way from an enormous

$3,995 heavy brick to

present devices.
 No internet

 No SMS

 No Touch Screen

 No GPS

 No Video

 No Camera

 No Music

 No Bluetooth
1973 – The first cell phone

 The first mobile phone

developed by Motorola in

1973.

 It was Martin Cooper who

placed the first call at

AT&T Bells Labs from the

streets of New York.

1984 – Nokia Mobira Talkman

 The Phone weighed under 5

kgs and is world‘s one of the
first transportable phones.

 A car and a charger was

needed to charge it.

 Once this model was

launched, its sales created a
stir in the market and the
cynics were silenced.
1989 – Motorola MicroTac

 Motorola Microtac was the

smallest and lightest
available phone at that time.

 It was released as the

―MicroTac Pocket Cellular
Telephone‖.

 It was designed keeping in

mind to fit it in a shirt pocket.
1992 – Motorola International 3200

 First digital-sized mobile phone from Motorola

introduced in 1992.
 This was the first handset that gave the world an
idea of ―Flip Phones‖.
 The International 3200 was crafted to enable mobile phones

to use the original analog cell technology.

 Like its predecessors, 3200‘s shape and size was similar to

a long brick with numeric buttons on the narrow side, along

with the earphone and microphone.

 In Germany, it was called knochen, due to the resemblance

in shape between it and a bone.

1994 – Motorola 2900 BagPhone
 Motorola introduced a very powerful line of
mobile phones in 1992.

 These phones put out 3 watts of power (as

opposed to 0.6 watts that today's cell phones
output) which made them popular for truckers,
boaters, and people in rural areas.

 Because of their durability, many of these

phones are still in working order today.
1996 – Motorola StarTac
 Before the StarTAC came along, cell phones were

bricks. Motorola wowed the industry with this 3.1

ounce wonder.

 The handset is best remembered today as being

the first clamshell phone—a form factor that set

the design precedent for years to come.

 The StarTAC handset helped drive mainstream
cell phone adoption, selling around 60 million
units over the course of its long life.

 The phone also gets points for introducing the

vibrating ring.
1996 – Nokia 8110
•Nokia‘s first high-end
phone was released in
1996
•What made it different
was the ‗slider‘ form
factor.
•It was made to protect
the keypad when kept in
pocket and could
downslide when in use.
1996 – Nokia 9000 Communicator
 The very first product of the
communicator series from
Nokia.
 A brand name in the series
of business optimized
mobile phones.
 On the outside, it appears
just like a normal phone &
open in clamshell to access
the QWERTY keyboard.
1998 – Nokia 5110
 EVERYONE had these!

 Nokia 5110 was the first phone to feature the

game snake.

 It had a face plate which allowed users to

customize their mobile phone.

 Now mobile phones were not limited to just

communication, they were more about fashion
now.
 Though this wasn‘t Nokia‘s first attempt for a business phone,
but this time they decided it was more of fashion.
 The Guardian fashion editor loved it and it won the 'Off the
Cuff' (Fashion) Accessory of the Year Award 1998.

 Nokia had jumped on a trend that started in the mobile

phone accessories market.
 People were buying new covers for old phones.
For once, we all have played this in our life!

Nokia 5110
1999 – Nokia 8210

 The lightest and smallest available Nokia phone at

that time.

 Its selling point was based on the customization and

design, with removable X-press on covers.
 You can find six different colors in the X-Press on covers
for your mobile.
 This phone had the feature of speed dial in which the user
can assign name to each key on keypad.

 On the lower side of the phone you can find an infra-red port for
wireless communication.
 The phone uses SMS (Short Message Service) with predictive
text input, with support for major European languages.
2002 – RIM BlackBerry 5810

 There was a time in the not-so-

distant past when BlackBerry's‘

weren't actually phones.

 Mobile professionals who are

addicted to e-mail access via their

RIM BlackBerry devices can get a

new fix with the company‘s 5810.

 They were data-only devices, used by professionals, like

lawyers, who needed constant access to their e-mail.

 The reputation of the BlackBerry began to change in

2002, however, when Research In Motion released the

BlackBerry 5810.

 This was the first BlackBerry to feature a built-in phone.

Alas, the device lacked a speaker and a microphone, so

you had to use a headset to make calls.

2002 – Sanyo SCP - 5300
 In 2002 the first flip-phones
were introduced, including the
Sanyo SCP-5300, which
featured a low-quality camera
as well.
 When Sanyo introduced the
color-screen SCP-5000 a couple
of years ago, consumers got a
glimpse of what cell phones
might be able to do in the future.
 Features which made this phone stand out of the crowd
are :

○ Vibrant color display

○ Built-in camera with flash

○ Compatible with Sprint PCS Business Connection software

○ Comes with extended battery; solid call quality.

2002 – T-Mobile SideKick

 The Danger Hiptop, also

re-branded as the T-Mobile
Sidekick, Mobiflip and
Sharp Jump is a
GPRS/EDGE/UMTS
Smartphone produced by
Danger Incorporated.
 It featured a 240x160-pixel, 4-bit monochrome display and was
touted as a BlackBerry for the masses.

 The handheld provided real-time e-mail and instant messaging but

lacked a speakerphone.

 The Hiptop 2, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX

(2009) are all manufactured by Sharp Corporation in Japan.
2004 – Motorola Razr V3
 One of the thinnest clamshell phones in the world!

 Half an inch thin and made of anodized aluminum, the

Motorola flip phone looks and feels absolutely amazing.

 There's no dispute: The Razr (pronounced "razor") is the

coolest-looking phone. Period.

Flip it open, and you're confronted by

a vast screen that's bright enough!
2007 – Apple iPhone
 This phone completely
changed the definition of a
Smartphone.
 iPhone is a line of
smartphones designed by
Apple Inc.
 This phone runs on Apple‘s
iOS mobile operating
system.
 Apple created the device during a secretive and
unprecedented collaboration with AT&T, formerly
Cingular Wireless.
 The development cost of the collaboration was
estimated to have been $150 million over a thirty-month
period.
 This phone was immediately listed amongst the best
inventions of 2007.
 As termed by a press release ―The Original iPhone‖ has
been discontinued when its successor iPhone 3G was
released.
Modern Day Smartphones & Tablets!