History of Mobile Phones

This is a brief history of the personal mobile phone

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1973-04-03 00:00:00

First Call from a mobile phone

Motorola engineer martin Cooper makes the first public call from a hand held mobile phone to his business rival.

1983-09-21 00:00:00

First mobile phones available for commercial use

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X received approval from the U.S. FCC on September 21, 1983 and became the first cell phone to be offered commercially in 1984.

1993-08-01 00:00:00

First smart phone

IBM and Bellsouth announce the Simon personal communicator phone touted as the world's first smart phone.

2002-08-01 00:00:00

First mobile phones with cameras

Sanyo and Nokia release phones with built-in cameras.

2007-08-01 00:00:00

Iphone is unveiled

Apple unveil the Iphone which offers groundbreaking software and hardware that would set the trend for smartphones to follow.

History of Mobile Phones

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