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2G also introduced the ability to access media content on mobile phones. In 1998, the first downloadable content sold to mobile phones was the ring tone, launched by Finland's Radiolinja (now Elisa). Advertising on the mobile phone first appeared in Finland when a free daily SMS news headline service was launched in 2000, sponsored by advertising.
The StarTAC is a series of mobile phones released by Motorola starting in 1996. It is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design first launched in 1989. [2] Whereas the MicroTAC's flip folded down from below the keypad, the StarTAC folded up from above the display.
That first cell phone began a fundamental technology and communications market shift to making phone calls to a person instead of to a place. [ 6 ] [ 19 ] Bell Labs had introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947, but their first systems were limited to car phones which required roughly 30 pounds (12 kg) of equipment in the trunk. [ 21 ]
From 1998 to 2012, Nokia was the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world, which included early smartphones built on its Symbian platform. However, in recent years, its market share declined as a result of the growing use of touchscreen smartphones from other vendors, such as Apple 's iPhone line and Android -based products.
The Bag Phones are a derivative of the Motorola Tough Talker series of transportable phones, which in turn descended from the DynaTAC car phones introduced in 1984. All of these phones feature a modular design in which the handset attaches to the transceiver, which is then powered by either a vehicle's power system (in the car phones) or a ...
IBM's smartphone see-through prototype demonstrated at Comdex 1992 beside an iPhone 5 for comparison. With advances in MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOS transistor) technology enabling smaller integrated circuit chips be powered [11] and the proliferation of wireless mobile networks, [12] [13] IBM engineer Frank Canova realised that chip-and-wireless ...
Android htc-2065.0.8.0.0 build (oldest known build seen on the device) [293] Honor U8860: Huawei: 2011/09 Android 2.3 Gingerbread [294] Honor 2 Huawei 2012/10 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich [295] Honor 3 Huawei 2013/08 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean [296] Honor 3C Huawei 2013/12 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean [297] Honor 3X: Huawei 2013/12 Android 4.4 KitKat [298]
Mobile phones with non-removable rear cover typically house SIM and memory cards in a small tray on the handset's frame, ejected by inserting a needle tool into a pinhole. [242] Some earlier mid-range phones such as the 2011 Samsung Galaxy Fit and Ace have a sideways memory card slot on the frame covered by a cap that can be opened without tool ...