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Two decades of evolution of mobile phones, from a 1992 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. A mobile phone, or cell phone, [a] is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones (landline phones).
A man talks on his mobile phone while standing near a conventional telephone box, which stands empty. Enabling technology for mobile phones was first developed in the 1940s but it was not until the mid-1980s that they became widely available. By 2011, it was estimated in Britain that more calls were made using mobile phones than wired devices. [1]
A Nexus 6, an Android smartphone, displaying the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
This is the list of mobile phone brands sorted by the country from which the brands originate. The number of mobile phone brands peaked to more than 750 in 2017 before declining to nearly 250 brands in 2023. [1] Bold refers to major smartphone brand. [2] [3]
List of best-selling mobile phones; List of BlackBerry products; List of countries by number of mobile phones in use; List of Huawei phones; List of iPhone models; List of large sensor camera phones; List of LG mobile phones; List of mobile phone brands by country; List of mobile phones with a high refresh rate display; List of mobile phones ...
A translation system allowing the Japanese to exchange conversations with foreign nationals through mobile phones was first developed in 1999 by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International-Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, based in Kansai Science City, Japan.
0G: An early cellular mobile phone technology emerged in the 1970s. At this time, although briefcase-type mobile phones have appeared, they still generally need to be installed in a car or truck. PTT: Push to talk; MTS: Mobile Telephone System; IMTS: Improved Mobile Telephone Service; AMTS: Advanced Mobile Telephone System
In 2008, the iPhone reached 1.1% of worldwide mobile phone market share, [205] and 8.2% of the smartphone market. [206] During this time it was quickly becoming relevant in North America, and in market share was ranked second in the U.S. in 2009, behind the BlackBerry ; [ 207 ] in 2010 the iPhone 3GS was the best-selling smartphone in the U.S ...