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The Motorola MicroTAC is a cellular phone first manufactured as an analog version in 1989. GSM-compatible and TDMA/Dual-Mode versions were introduced in 1994. The MicroTAC introduced a new "flip" design, where the "mouthpiece" folded over the keypad, although on later production the "mouthpiece" was actually located in the base of the phone, along with the ringer.
Box and Gemini PDA with Planet Computers' Janko Mrsic-Flogel (CEO, left) and Davide Guidi (CTO, right) The Gemini PDA is a personal digital assistant [1] designed by Planet Computers [2] in association with Martin Riddiford, who formerly worked on the Psion Series 5 in the 1990s, [3] and crowdfunded via Indiegogo in 2017. [4]
In early cell phones, or feature phones, the letters on the keys are used for text entry tasks such as text messaging, entering names in the phone book, and browsing the web. To compensate for the smaller number of keys, phones used multi-tap and later predictive text processing to speed up the process.
The Sony Ericsson P800 is a mobile phone introduced in 2002 [1] based upon UIQ version 2.0 (which itself is based upon Symbian OS v7.0) from Sony Ericsson.The P800 is considered the successor of the Ericsson R380, [2] and initial design work was done within Ericsson, but it was produced after Sony & Ericsson merged their mobile phone businesses.
IBM created a unique touch-screen user interface for Simon; no DOS prompt existed. [1] This user interface software layer for Simon was known as the Navigator. [26] The Simon could be upgraded to run third party applications either by inserting a PCMCIA card or by downloading an application to the phone's internal memory. [citation needed]
The Palm TX from 2005 An early model—the PalmPilot Personal. Palm is a now discontinued line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. Palm devices are often remembered as "the first wildly popular handheld computers," responsible for ushering in the smartphone era.
Landline cord-cutters: 'The young and the restless' Researchers found that cutting the cord says something about who you are. One trait stood out: The boldness it took to go wireless, at a time ...
Two cordless telephones 3 VTech cordless landline phones A Panasonic KX-TG2226B 2.4GHz cordless phone with answering machine. A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same ...