A LOT can happen in 40 years. But when it comes to technology, 40-years is
like going back to the days of Moses or the Roman Empire. Case in point: the
mobile phone –– and, more recently, the rise of mobile internet
communications, social networks and super-fast internet. But what were the
phones that made it happen; who were the pioneering brands that made
today's handsets possible; and which phone, out of the thousands launched
since the 1980s, was the most important? Answer: quite a few.

But first: a history lesson.

The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin
Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications
company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone
Cooper used, if you could call it that, weighed a staggering 1.1kg and measured
in at 228.6x127x44.4mm. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of
talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge.



In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The handset offered 30 minutes of talk-time, six
hours standby, and could store 30 phone numbers. It also cost £2639 ($3995).

In the very early days of the mobile space handsets weren’t designed with
consumers in mind. You’d need a couple of thousand pounds to get hold of one,
and even then performance wasn’t great. Back then, mobile phones were
designed with the likes of Gordon Gecko in mind, businessmen-types that drove
big Jags and flew Concord. Not your average Joe.

Even at the start of the 1990s this was still the case despite Nokia and NEC
entering the fray. Nokia’s first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman
900, launched in 1989 and weighed just 800g – a huge improvement over
1982’s 9.8kg Mobira Senator model.

1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability, with
mobile devices gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers
for the first time. By the late-1990s, mobile devices were fast becoming the
norm thanks to the following handsets…

1997 – Nokia 6110

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Features:

-Three games: Memory, Snake, Logic
-Calculator, clock and calendar
-Currency converter
-Works as a pager
-Profile settings
-4 colours

1997 – Motorola StarTAC



Inspired by the communicator from Star Trek, this bad boy was the world’s first
clamshell handset. Another first for Motorola.

1998 – Nokia 5110



Excellent battery, slim by 1998’s standards, and it also featured Snake. What
more could a 90s consumer want?

Features:

-Dimensions 48 x 132 x 31 mm
-Battery 900 mAh NiMH
-Display 47 x 84 B/W

1999 – BlackBerry 850



The BlackBerry 850 was the first handset released under the BlackBerry brand.
Ten years later, RIM would be crowned the fastest growing company on the
planet. And we all know what happened post-2010.

2000 – Nokia 3310



The phone that all of your mates had at school – if you went to school in the
mid-to-late-90s, that is. Even in 2013, many regard the 3310 as one of the
best mobile devices ever created. Some even say it’s indestructible.

2002 – Samsung SGH-T100



Before Samsung took over the world it made handsets like this, which was the
first phone ever to use a thin-film transistor active matrix LCD display.

2003 – BlackBerry 5810



It didn’t have a built in speaker so you had to plug headphones in to make
phone calls, but the BlackBerry 5810 did have email and a QWERTY keyboard.

2004 – Motorola Razr V3



Motorola shifted over a 130 million of its ‘fashion’ phone between the years
2004 and 2006, making it the best-selling clamshell handset in history.

2005 – BlackBerry 7270



First BlackBerry handset to feature Wi-Fi, and one of the main reasons for
widespread CrackBerry addiction.

2006 – Nokia N95



A true smartphone, one that ran on Symbian, packed in a 332MHz Texas
Instruments CPU, and feature 160MB of RAM. It also featured a decent 5-
megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

2007 – LG Shine

Features:

-Dimensions: 99.8 x 50.6 x 13.8mm
-Weight: 118g
-Operating system: Java MIDP 2.0
-CPU: ARM9 115 MHz
-Memory: 50 MB Internal, microSD (TransFlash) external memory card slot
-Battery: 800mAh Li-Ion
-Display: 240 x 320, 2.2-inch Display 262K-color TFT LCD
-Camera: 2.0 megapixels + Autofocus

2008 – Apple iPhone 3G



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$3995!!!!! Mogbe ooo! You can get a very good smartphone with just $100 these days!

augster:
$3995!!!!! Mogbe ooo! You can get a very good smartphone with just $100 these days!

I tell you bro, that's over 600k (current exchange rate) for that bogus mighty device.

back in the days of Nokia 3310

OCTAVO:

I tell you bro, that's over 600k (current exchange rate) for that bogus mighty device.

chai that could build a very standard duplex back then..

blym4real:
back in the days of Nokia 3310

imagine the amount of girls that went into prostitution and guys that used their friends to do rituals just because of it

Latest S6,Note 5 and iphone 6s etc,all these too shall pass...in 10 yrs time,we all will just look at their specs and LAUGH.

It's OFFICIAL


Wow... Am so so old

The human race's drive for 'more' is astounding.

Imagine back then, when the telephone was first made.

"I want to make something that will let you hear the voice of another across the world!"
They'd think that was crazy.

"I want to make a telephone you can carry around, with no wires!"
They'd think that was crazy.

"I want to make a phone that can connect to the Internet!"
They'd think that was crazy.

"I want to make a phone that can play music, take pictures, AND watch videos."
They'd think that was crazy.

Show the iPhone to Bell and watch him scream witchcraft.

In another 40 years, our present-day selves will be screaming the same.

Technology is amazing.

Octavo I missed your posts, why did you lay low for so long or Where u banned? anyway nice post and welcome back.

awwww that Motorola raz just gave me a nostalgic feeling, I remember those days I'll wait for my dad to go and take his bath and I'll take the phone and start snapping, it was amazing then seeing a camera phone and trust parents then you dare not touch it. how time flies.
#sandsoftime

And why is this topic not in fp yet
Lalasticlala

i remember wen i saw that motorola razar advert....i wan die dat year...e b like rob bank go buy the fone sharperly

Blackberry and that kind of keyboard

Make I sharperly comment

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PS: If you know all these phone.....







You're Old

chai!! see blackberry black n white.. LMAO!!