1983 - Since when there were phones at all?
The first phone, the Motorola Dynatac was. It was released in 1983 and was bought as a first phone commercial. With it, you could make phone calls up to 30 minutes long, and it lasted for 10 hours, until it was loaded. Could afford a phone back then, only business people or the Rich. It cost no less than $3995, and was a real status symbol.
The Motorola Dynatac weighed almost a Kilo
1994 SMS on the phone, is commercially
More than ten years later, in 1994, was introduced to the SMS. Two years later, Motorola established the Motorola StarTAC. It was the first mobile phone, which had a Flip mechanism, and a vibration alarm. It weighed less than 100 grams and was very thin. The price was now $1000 for the upper-class affordable. The consequence of this was that more and more people were using mobile phones and the network was pushed ahead with expanding steadily.
The Startac was especially handy
1996 - multi function cell phones to see the market
At the same time Nokia released in 1996, the Nokia Communicator. With him faxes and E-Mails were received, and write. You could also work from on-the-go, bought the phone and secured Nokia more shares in the mobile phone sector. The mobile operators were now under pressure, because customers needed now Internet reception.
Nokia was now in the market
1999 - The first mobile phone with camera
Was introduced in 1999 in Japan with the Toshiba Camesse the first mobile phone with a camera. Also T9 appeared in this year, and accelerated the SMS traffic significantly. As of 2002, more and more mobile phones had integrated cameras and the devices were cheaper. The result was that more people used mobile phones and even teenagers were able to afford the devices at once. A completely new market segment was opened up.
Camera phones were normal (source: Pixabay)
2007 - breakthrough of Apple
The new breakthrough came in 2007 with the iPhone. Here's Apple defined for the first time, the Smartphone as we know it today. At once, mobile phones were able to edit photos, easily browse the Web, and at the same time the navigation system will be. And all this with a mobile phone, which looked chic and comfortable in the pocket fit. Also, the Software was groundbreaking. Gestures with two fingers, or running Scrolling were used to the iPhone namely barely.
The iPhone was groundbreaking
The future of mobile phones
Since the introduction of the Smartphones mobile phones have developed more and more. The touch screens were getting bigger, biometric identification options such as Fingerprint Sensors coming to a Smartphone nowadays is as fast as a Computer. In the future, phones are likely to embrace more and more the role of computers and many other innovations bring with them.
What awaits us in the future?
In the next practice tips we will show you what E-Mails and since when did CDs exist.
