4. 1. GOOGLE (HUAWEI) NEXUS 6P [2015]
2. GOOGLE PIXEL [2016]
3. SAMSUNG GALAXY S8+ [2017]
4. IPHONE X [2017]
5. ONEPLUS 6T [2018]
5. Mobile phones were invented as early as the 1940s when engineers working
at AT&T developed cells for mobile phone base stations. The very first mobile
phones were not really mobile phones at all. Motorola, on 3 April 1973 were
first company to mass produce the first handheld mobile phone. The
very first mobile phones were not really mobile phones at all. They were two-
way radios that allowed people like taxi drivers and the emergency services
to communicate.
6. The BlackBerry 6210, also
known as the ‘Quark’,
was named by TIME
Magazine as one of the most
influential gadgets of all
time. Whilst there were
many successful BlackBerry
models before this, the 6210
was the first BlackBerry to
actually offer integrated
phone functionality (i.e. the
ability to make phone calls).
7. Released at the end of 2004, the Razor V3 is Motorola’s
most popular handset to date, selling 50 million units
between 2004 and 2006. It also claimed the title of the
best-selling clamshell phone of all time.
8. 2005 marked the year that
Sony partnered with
Ericsson to release the first
mobile phone under the
famous Walkman brand,
made famous through its
portable cassette players
throughout the ‘80s and
‘90s. The W800 was one of
the very first phones on the
market to priorities music;
possibly as a result of the
iPod’s success
9. In 2007, the iPhone arrived
with a cost of $395,
followed shortly after by
the HTC Dream, or G1,
which brought Android to
the market and kicked off
the
current smartphone battle
that brings us better and
better phones. Prices have
finally dropped to $300 and
$200 for high end phones.
10. Just one year after the launch
of its first-generation iPhone,
Apple rocked the Smartphone
industry yet again with the
launch of the iPhone 3G
(there wasn’t ever an iPhone 2
or 2G, although some people
refer to the first iPhone as the
‘2G’ as it was the only iPhone
to operate solely on 2G
networks).
11. ‘Dream G1’ model, also known as the T-Mobile Dream G1
in some areas, in September 2008. Whilst the phone itself
was nothing extraordinary for its time, featuring a
QWERTY keyboard, a touchscreen and a few buttons for
key features such as answering
12. BlackBerry launched its
Curve 8520 model in 2009,
further reinforcing its
transformation from a
business-focussed to a
consumer-focussed
manufacturer. Following the
phone’s release, BlackBerry
sales spiked; going from
just under 20 million units
sold in 2008 to 50 million in
2010.
13. The most successful phone
lines in history, Samsung
launched the very first Galaxy
S in June 2010. With 16GB of
storage, a 1 GHz ARM
‘Hummingbird’ processor, an
AMOLED touch screen, a 5-
megapixel camera and a 0.3-
megapixel front camera it was
a very strong attempt at
competing with Apple’s
popular iPhone series.
14. Samsung launched its
first ‘phablet’
(phone/tablet), the
Samsung Galaxy Note
N7000, in October 2011.
With a screen size of 5.3
inches, something that
was pretty unheard of at
this time, iPhone users
ridiculed it as “too big”,
asking questions like
“does it even fit in your
pocket?”.
15. Often labeled the ‘first
great Android phone’,
the Samsung Galaxy S3
also launched in 2012.
With more than 20
million units sold in the
first 100 days, this was
the first Android phone
to consistently
outperform the iPhone
in polls
16. Released in 2013, the
Nokia Lamia 1020 is still
known as one of the
most powerful camera
phones on the market.
At a whopping 41-
megapixels, this
incredible phone has
been described as “able
to replace the digital
camera” and as “a
compact camera with
some phone features
tacked onto it”.
17. A mobile phone, cellular
phone, cell phone,
cellophane, headphone, or
hand phone, sometimes
shortened to simply
mobile, cell or just phone,
is a portable telephone that
can make and receive calls
over a radio frequency link
while the user is moving
within a telephone service
area.
18. Mobile phones are used for
a variety of purposes, such
as keeping in touch with
family members, for
conducting business, and in
order to have access to
a telephone in the event of
an emergency. Some people
carry more than one mobile
phone for different
purposes, such as for
business and personal use.
19. The term mobile phone is
broadly used to describe
a phone that is not
connected by any wires. It
also covers
satellite phones, Wi-
Fi phones and cell phones.
... A Cell Phone is,
therefore, a mobile
phone that works utilising
radio cells, which is an
area of radio coverage.
20. They diagrammed a
network of wireless towers
into what they called a
cellular layout. Cellular was
the chosen term because
each tower and its coverage
map looked like a
biological cell.
Eventually, phones that
operated on this type
of wireless network
were called cellular phones.
21. There has been
speculation over
whether Android is called "
Android" because it
sounds like "Andy."
Actually, Android is Andy
Rubin — coworkers at
Apple gave him the
nickname back in 1989
because of his love for
robots. Android.com was
Rubin's personal website
until 2008.
22. The easiest way to check your phone's model name and number is to
use the phone itself. Go to the Settings or Options menu, scroll
to the bottom of the list, and check 'About phone', 'About device' or
similar. The device name and model number should be listed.
23. Cell phones use radio
waves to communicate.
Radio waves transport
digitized voice or data in the
form of oscillating electric
and magnetic fields, called
the electromagnetic field
(EMF). Radio waves carry
the information and travel in
air at the speed of light. Cell
phones transmit radio
waves in all directions.
24. Most of
world's Smartphone
manufacturing today
is being done in
China. The software
team steps in now to
breathe life into the
handset. It is basically
pre-decided on the
operating system that
is to be loaded into
the phone.
![1. MOBIRA (NOKIA) SENATOR [1982]
2. MOTOROLA DYNATAC 8000X [1983]
3. NOKIA 1011 [1992]
4. IBM SIMON [1994]
5. NOKIA 9000 COMMUNICATOR [1996]
6. MOTOROLA STARTAC [1996]
7. NOKIA 8110 [1996]
8. SIEMENS S10 [1997]
9. RIM (BLACKBERRY) 850 [1999]
10. NOKIA 7110 [1999]
11. SHARP J-SH04 [2000] NOKIA 3310 [2000]
12. NOKIA 1100 [2003]
13. BLACKBERRY (RIM) 6210 [2003]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)