Did you know that the history of mobile phones dates all the way back to the 80s? Probably not. The following infographic takes you through the years back when “size was king and the prices were hefty”. Specifically, the first commercially avialable mobile phone device was at least 10-inches tall, weighing 28 ounces.
Then came the nineties chich saw IBM develop the first device to combine a mobile phone with a PDA. By 1999, the first mobile phone to come with a WAP browser, Nokia 7110, went on sale thus allowing users to browse the Internet on the go.
The noughties saw the unprecented growth of the mobile phone industry. Phones like the powerful Nokia 3310, Motorola Razr V3, Sony Ericsson R380, and Blackberry phones were born. These phones paved the way for the advent of today’s smartphones and the epic battle of Android and Apple phones. Indeed, the first iPhone went on sale in 2007, followed by HTC Dream, the first commercially available smartphone to use Android, in 2009.
By 2010 smartphones were outselling computers with faster processors, bigger RAMs, bigger screens, lighter models, better cameras, touch screens, and their sleek looks.
Click on the image below (opens in a new window) to revisit the past, the present, and find out what the future holds for mobile phone devices.
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