After his invention the 85 year old inventor claimed that "this was just the beginning of cell phone era" and that he "Only lives for the future", Dr. Martin Coopers phone was given the nickname "The brick" but this invention was the kick starter of plenty more advancements on the cell phone.
 |
| Dr.Martin Cooper holding his invention (First Cell phone) |
Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
1989This was truly the beginning of mobile phones because this phone was small enough to actually fit inside someones jacket pocket, This phone was a little more advanced as it gave phone operations and options in the menu of the cell phone.
A currency calculator also was a new function on this cell phone that nobody seen before, with ring tones, Contact storage and memory protection, the MicroTAC 9800X was the first phone also to have the microphone and ringer in the mouthpiece. People started to see how quickly cell phones were going to advance with the new functions that the 9800X brought to the table.
Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
Nokia 8110
1996
We're going to skip just a little bit ahead now and discuss the Nokia 8110, This was introduced in the first Matrix movie in 1999, being a futuristic movie this gave the mobile phone a bit more popularity to make its release in a blockbuster movie. It's distinctive style gave it more of a shine with it's "sliding panel" to make a call this also protected the phone from damage, it only weighed 145 g and was the first model with SSMS (Smart SMS) engine, which was basically just text messaging. Nokia started making a name for itself. |
| Nokia 8110 |
Nokia 5510
2001
This new model was mainly praised for its music playing abilities and capacity, it had 64MB of storage and featured a full QWERTY Keyboard. The 5510 had the ability to play digital music files transferred onto its 64MB internal flash memory via USB.Compared to other mobile phones the design of this one in particular was almost completely QWERTY shaped. Giving a new approach in phones, design wise the phone stood out through its features. In my opinion the 5510 was just an MP3 with calling features, the makers didn't create much new technology wise.
 |
| Nokia 5510 |
Nokia 6680
2005
This phone brought new functions and improved sound for playing music, it was rather small only 2.2 inches compared to the very first phone which was 10 inches big. During its development its was nicknamed "Milla", also this phone had two camera's a front camera and back camera.Front camera (0.3 megapixels), Back camera (1.3 megapixels). This phone also operated on 3G networks along with Bluetooth, this was a way of sending songs and video's from one phone to another for free.
 |
| Nokia 6680 |
iPhone
2007
This phone is where all the technology started to come into play, The iPhone had so much to give, like its app features, instant messaging, touch screen technology, although there were a few problems due to battery life was poor and compared to the older phones (2000-2005) the batteries in them phones lasted a hell of a lot longer then today's standards and the iPhone.Built in it had already a 2G memory storage (but with your applications and internet browsers this didn't take long to use up), you also had 3.5 inch screen, the phone's seemed to be getting smaller but due to more and more being touch screen the screens got bigger. This rear camera was also 2 megapixels, increasing the graphics in photo's taken by the phone. Plenty of people enjoy all the interaction that you could do with this phone and the apps that you could use. Hundreds of games profited from download on this phone and popularity grew for social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube all benefited through this.
 |
| Very first iPhone |
Samsung Galaxy S II
2011
The Samsung Galaxy S line of smartphones had variants on all four major US wireless carriers, and on several regional carriers, and is an extremely successful line. The Samsung Galaxy s II takes the best of the Galaxy S line and improves it with a 8 megapixel camera, integrated memory and microSD card, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, and more.
The graphical side to this phone was pretty impressive also, with 16M colors and multi-touch.
The amazing Samsung display itself might be a reason to buy this device, but yet again the battery life was a concern as it ran out fairly quickly. When you first got the phone there was already some apps installed onto the phone like YouTube, Image and video editor, Google talk, Picasa and then just your general word documents and PowerPoints.
The graphical side to this phone was pretty impressive also, with 16M colors and multi-touch.
The amazing Samsung display itself might be a reason to buy this device, but yet again the battery life was a concern as it ran out fairly quickly. When you first got the phone there was already some apps installed onto the phone like YouTube, Image and video editor, Google talk, Picasa and then just your general word documents and PowerPoints.
 |
| Samsung Galaxy S II |
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo
2014
Here is a phone that was released early in 2014, January this new Samsung was released and it looked like one good step up from the Galaxy S 5. This Phone had to offer a 8 megapixel camera (Rear camera) and the front camera gave a decent 2 megapixel camera considering the first iPhone's main camera was only 2 megapixels. There was a huge increase in memory storage the samsung note gave you 16GB free storage space and with a 2G RAM. The screen to this phone was also a lot bigger then normal touchscreens with an impressive 5.5 inch screen.It's feature was a very slim interactive pen you could use to navigate your way around the phone all the featured apps in the last phone (Samsung Galaxy S II) were already installed into this phone plus extra like Google maps, Swipe text, Document viewer, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage) and also a nice feature, S-Voice natural language commands and dictation.
 |
| Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo |
I can only imagine what the future holds for mobile phone technology, as we see brand new concepts of phone's to be "Soon Released". All i can say is there has been a huge difference from Dr. Martin Coopers invention of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the mobile phones that we have today. Technology within these phone's has improved drastically, with more and more functions and apps being placed into mobile phones today they are literally pocket sized Laptops or computers. These are a few concepts i found of what mobile phone could be within a couple of years time.
 |
| Concept |
 |
| Concept |
 |
| Concept |
 |
| Concept |
 |
| Concept |
I'll be interested to review this article again within 10 years and see what mobile phone's have become since now.