Motorola released their first Android-based smartphone, the Motorola Cliq, in October 2009.
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HTC released the HTC Dream on September 23, 2008, the first smartphone to use the Android operating system. The first WiMAX network, a fourth generation ( 4G) cellular network, was launched in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, in June 2008. Because it utilized the 2G cellular network standard, it was sometimes referred to as the iPhone 2G.
LG released the LG Prada mobile phone in May 2007, the first phone to use a capacitive touch screen.Īpple released its first smartphone, the iPhone, on June 29, 2007. OMRON Corporation introduced the first facial recognition system available for mobile phones, named OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor, at the Japan Security Show in March 2005. Nextel Communications merged with Sprint in 2005. The T-Mobile Sidekick (aka Danger Hiptop), was released in 2002 and was one of the first smartphones outside of Japan to see significant usage in terms of data connectivity. This allowed cell phones to send images and videos over text. In April 2002, the first phone to support MMS, the Sony Ericsson T68i, was announced. NTT DoCoMo was the first company to launch a third-generation cellular network, or 3G, in Japan in 2001, using the WCDMA standard. RIM ( Research in Motion) released the BlackBerry 5810 in 2001, which was the first BlackBerry device with phone call capabilities. Kyocera released the Visual Phone VP-210 in May 1999, the first cell phone on the commercial market to feature a camera with a 110,000- pixel resolution. Release in 1998, the Nokia 6110 GSM cell phone was the first to use an ARM processor. It had e-mail capabilities, an address book, a calculator, a calendar, and a notepad. IBM developed the first smartphone in 1994, called the Simon Personal Communicator. The first SMS text message was sent in 1993 between two cell phones. Nokia released the Nokia 1011, the first cell phone to utilize the GSM standard. Giesecke & Devrient developed the first SIM card in 1991 for use by Radiolinja and their GSM cellular network. Radiolinja was the first company to launch a second-generation cellular network, or 2G, in Finland in 1991, using the GSM standard. The GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) standard for mobile phone communications was defined in 1990. It provided 30 minutes of talk time and cost $3,995. Motorola released the DynaTAC 8000x cell phone in 1984, which was the first cell phone available on the commercial market. Nokia released their first mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900, in 1987, which utilized NMT-900 networks. It was considered the birth of the first generation of cellular networks, or 1G. The first cellular network in the world, using analog technology, was launched in Japan in 1979 by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. The first call made on a cell phone was in 1973 by Dr. Martin Cooper and a team of developers at Motorola in 1973. The CDMA mobile phone technology was first used by Russian military radio engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich in 1957 when he built an experimental wearable mobile phone that utilized CDMA.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone, allowing people to talk to each other over great distances.Ī patent was filed in 1917 by Eric Tigerstedt for a "pocket-size folding telephone with a skinny carbon microphone."īell labs first proposed the idea of a cell phone and cellular network in 1947.