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The first portable cellular phone commercially available for use on a cellular network was developed by E.F. Johnson and Millicom, Inc. [29] It was introduced by Millicom subsidiary Comvik in Sweden in September 1981. [30] Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone.
In 2019, Samsung had a 74% market share of 5G smartphones in South Korea. [296] In the first quarter of 2024, global smartphone shipments rose by 7.8% to 289.4 million units. Samsung, with a 20.8% market share, overtook Apple to become the leading smartphone manufacturer. Apple's smartphone shipments dropped 10%.
The iPhone [5] (retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G [6] or iPhone 1 [7]) is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone developed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, [8] and was released in the United States on June 29, 2007.
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The first SMS message was sent from a computer to a mobile phone in 1992 in the UK while the first person-to-person SMS from phone to phone was sent in Finland in 1993. The first mobile news service, delivered via SMS, was launched in Finland in 2000, [39] and subsequently many organizations provided "on-demand" and "instant" news services by SMS.
The Nokia N73 was the first smartphone to sell over a million. Nokia 6070/6080, 50 million sold; Nokia 7360/7370/7380, 45 million sold; Nokia 6300, 50 million sold [5] [84] Nokia 2310, 35 million sold; Nokia 5200/5300, 30 million sold [5] Samsung SGH-E250, 30 million sold [30] LG Chocolate KG800, 21 million sold [43] BlackBerry Pearl 8100, 15 ...
1985: Case formally launches Quantum Computer Services from the "ashes" of Control Video, starting the company that would become AOL. 1989 : Quantum Computer Services is renamed America Online.
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 ...