Quiz time - mobile phone technology
Am in the final stages of writing a feature on mobile phone technology for Next, and am trying to lock down some key dates in the history of mobile handsets.If anyone knows the answer to the following, please let me know (and preferably by the end of Wednesday, April 30).
- What was the first mobile phone to feature a colour screen, and when was it released?
- What was the first mobile phone to feature a built-in camera, and when was it released?
- Which was the first phone to feature an MP3 (or equivalent player), and when was it released?
- And what was the first mobile phone with integrated WiFi, and when was it released?
Hey Brad, when I was in the States my team at H&K developed the 20th anniversary of the mobile phone campaign for Motorola. Here are some key dates we identified (with an obvious Motorola leaning) which may help your article:
1983 - Motorola introduces the world's first "cellular portable radio telephone" (the DynaTac 8000X) and begins taking orders.
1984 - Motorola is the first to ship a commercial portable cellular phone (retail price of $3,995).
1989 - Motorola sets a new design standard with a flip-lid mouthpiece with the MicroTAC, retailing between $2,495 and $3,495.
1994 - Motorola's iDEN network is unveiled, integrating paging, data communications, voice dispatch and wireless telephone capabilities - making a host of features available in one handset.
2001 - Motorola industry's world first anodized aluminum housing with the Motorola V60
2002 - Motorola V70 changes design standards as first rotating cover and circular display
2002 - Motorola's first color screen was launched, the T720 (not sure who in the industry was first)
2002 - Motorola introduced a camera attachment but not sure who had the first embedded camera
2003 - the Motorola A760 was the world's first handset to combine Linux OS and Java
Posted by: Ryan Peal | April 30, 2008 at 09:40 AM
Hey Brad, when I was in the States my team at H&K developed the 20th anniversary of the mobile phone campaign for Motorola. Here are some key dates we identified (with an obvious Motorola leaning) which may help your article:
1983 - Motorola introduces the world's first "cellular portable radio telephone" (the DynaTac 8000X) and begins taking orders.
1984 - Motorola is the first to ship a commercial portable cellular phone (retail price of $3,995).
1989 - Motorola sets a new design standard with a flip-lid mouthpiece with the MicroTAC, retailing between $2,495 and $3,495.
1994 - Motorola's iDEN network is unveiled, integrating paging, data communications, voice dispatch and wireless telephone capabilities - making a host of features available in one handset.
2001 - Motorola industry's world first anodized aluminum housing with the Motorola V60
2002 - Motorola V70 changes design standards as first rotating cover and circular display
2002 - Motorola's first color screen was launched, the T720 (not sure who in the industry was first)
2002 - Motorola introduced a camera attachment but not sure who had the first embedded camera
2003 - the Motorola A760 was the world's first handset to combine Linux OS and Java
Posted by: Ryan Peal | April 30, 2008 at 09:41 AM