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  2. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    Consumer demand was strong despite the battery life, weight, and low talk time, and waiting lists were in the thousands. [44] [45] Many of the iconic early commercial cell phones such as the Motorola DynaTAC Analog AMPS were eventually superseded by Digital AMPS (D-AMPS) in 1990, and AMPS service was shut down by most North American carriers by ...

  3. What Was Your Salary Worth 50 Years Ago? - AOL

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    We can imagine how simple some aspects of life were before cell phones tethered us to work. It's also fun to look back and see just how much further a dollar seemed to go back then. Undoubtedly ...

  4. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From Finland the Nokia 1011 was introduced in 1992, as the first mass-market battery-powered portable cell phone. From Canada the BlackBerry Pearl reached an upscale market after 2006 when T-Mobile US bundled it to subscribers. [32] By 2000 most of the 111 million cell phone subscribers talked on them while driving.

  5. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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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).

  6. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    The wireless revolution began in the 1990s, [57] [58] [59] with the advent of digital wireless networks leading to a social revolution, and a paradigm shift from wired to wireless technology, [60] including the proliferation of commercial wireless technologies such as cell phones, mobile telephony, pagers, wireless computer networks, [57 ...

  7. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    This cell achieved very quick success in telegraphy, signaling, and electric bell work. The dry cell form was used to power early telephones—usually from an adjacent wooden box affixed to fit batteries before telephones could draw power from the telephone line itself. The Leclanché cell can not provide a sustained current for very long.

  8. Read This Before Signing a Cell-Phone Contract - AOL

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  9. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Previous telephones required the user to operate a separate switch to connect either the voice or the bell. With the new kind, the user was less likely to leave the phone "off the hook". In phones connected to magneto exchanges, the bell, induction coil, battery, and magneto were in a separate bell box called a "ringer box". In phones connected ...