History of mobile phones in Ukraine

Before the advent of mobile phones, a telephone booth was the most important element of communication - you could solve some business over the phone simply on the street, running into another booth with a handset. Remember, the first mobile phones were very similar to the handset from such a booth. And they weighed even more.

1946 - in the USA, in the city of St. Louis, AT & T Bell Laboratories began operating an experimental telephone service from a car. In the same year, in the USSR, G. Shapiro and I. Zakharchenko successfully tested a car radiotelephone of their system with a range of up to 20 km

On June 13, 1983, the first mass-produced mobile phone entered the American market. The device, called the Dynatac 8000x, manufactured by Motorola, weighed almost 800 g and was 33 cm long. The battery lasted only half an hour during a call, and the price was almost $4,000.

And away we go....

In 1992, the first mobile operator, CJSC Ukrainian Mobile Communications, appeared in Ukraine.

In 1993, the first mobile phone with a built-in clock, Benefon Beta, was created.

In 1996, the first flip phone was released - Motorola StarTAC.

1997 the first mobile phone with a color screen Siemens S10

In 1998, the first mobile phone with a touch screen appeared - Sharp PMC-1 Smart-phone.

In 1999, a cell phone with the ability to use two SIM cards, Benefon Twin+, and the first slider, Siemens SL10, were released.

2000, the first mobile phone to support Internet Times (Swatch) technology - Ericsson T20 and the first mobile phone that had a GPS receiver - Benefon ESC.

Also, the Japanese company SHARP, together with the mobile operator J-Phone, released the first cell phones with a built-in camera and the first mobile phone with an MP3 player and support for MultiMediaCard Siemens SL45 memory cards

In 2001, NTT DoCoMo launched a 3G communication network.

In 2002, Ericsson released the first mobile phone with Bluetooth technology and the first mobile phone with a built-in camera - Samsung V200.

2006 Ukrtelecom receives a license for 3G communications

In 2009, sales of the first smartphones on the Android platform in Ukraine began on January 15.

UKRAINIAN MOBILE HISTORY

It also dates back to the 90s - then they were used by men in crimson jackets. Authentic photographs of them and their phones are rare, but here is the first Russian president with such a device.

Up until 2000, the vast majority of Ukrainians could only watch the development of technology from afar, but the fashionable Nokia 8110 model “Like Neo in The Matrix” was only a dream from the big screens.

The majority, at the beginning of the 2000s and until the middle, used large “nut crackers”. They were worn in leather or textile cases with a transparent insert, worn with a clip on a trouser belt.

It was impossible to write text messages on them, but the melody could be chosen from 10-15 that were offered. Usually everyone chose some Mozart.

The lucky ones had a fashionable phone in a bright color

And then Nokia 3310 came and for many years became the favorite phone of Ukrainians. Nokia 3310 has become perhaps the most popular phone among Ukrainians. He was considered immortal. And everyone started texting and playing “snake”

Nokia was also worn on a belt, but other cases were already in fashion

The tiny Siemens SL45 became a new must-have - girls squealed with delight over it, and men, even if they bought it, were tormented because they were poking two buttons at once with one finger

Other companies also began making small phones, for example Ericsson was as long as a cigarette

They were worn on laces over clothes - to the great joy of thieves and gopniks.

The market reacted and began to produce multi-colored laces for the neck and arm

The next hit is Siemens S45, with GPRS and 360 KB RAM.

In the mid-2000s, the first phones with polyphony and color screens appeared, and television was flooded with advertisements that offered to download an original ringtone and buy a picture for a screensaver.

Remember how often the whole minibus started rummaging through their bags because everyone had the same ringtone - “Boomer” or “brigade”.

The Sony Ericsson Walkman of the late 200s became a dream for music lovers - it was convenient to listen to music, and there were buttons on the body. At the same time, mobile phone owners began to buy headsets en masse. There was even a joke: people used to take off their hats when they met on the street, but now they take the headphones out of their ears.

Do you remember this fashionable toy? The girls were delighted - a pink Motorola with a ringtone from “Sex and the City” occupied the dreams of thousands of Ukrainians

Since the mid-2000s, fashionistas have been switching en masse to smartphones, and subsequently to smartphones with touchscreens.

Touch screens initially responded to the stylus and the big problem was getting that same “stick”; later they became unnecessary.

In 2007, the first iPhone with a touchscreen, a Samsung 32-bitRISCARM processor at 620 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, a graphics processor and 4 GB of built-in memory appeared and blew everyone away.

But he was a “monopolist” for about 5 years, after which companies began to produce smartphones en masse.