From the first call on a mobile phone to the first smartphone (13 photos)

It is impossible to imagine modern life without a gadget, in which we have everything - applications, bank cards, communication with loved ones, work, social networks. And how did it all start?





April 3, 1973 head of the mobile development department Communications Motorola called the head of research at Bell Labs - to its competitor.

The head of the department was called Martin Cooper, and the competitor was Joel Engel. This would be the very first call from a mobile phone in history.



Martin Cooper with his invention

The world's first cell phone was called the DynaTAC. It was colossus (of course, by modern standards) weighing 1.15 kg, dimensions 22.5 x 12.5 x 3.75 cm. 2000 parts. Charging was enough for twenty minutes conversation, and it took 15 years and $90 million to create it.

"Do you know where I'm calling you from? I'm calling you from Manhattan, from the world's first cell phone." Cooper claimed that grinding teeth He heard Engel quite distinctly.





Subscriber equipment of professional mobile communication systems "Altai"

It is noteworthy that there is also a version that the first cordless telephones appeared in the USSR, when in 1961 radio engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich developed a prototype telephone, which could transmit voice to the station within a radius of 25 km. In standby mode, this the device could work for about half an hour and weighed half a kilo. It was a box with number dial, toggle switches and handset.

In the journal "Young Technician" Kupriyanovich wrote:

Wherever you are, you can always be found by phone, it costs only from any landline phone (even with pay phone) dial the known number of your radiophone. Do you have in phone rings in your pocket and you start a conversation. When necessary, you can directly from the tram, trolley bus, bus dial any city telephone number, call an ambulance, fire department or emergency vehicle, contact the house...

But after 1965, no one wrote about this anymore, and Kupriyanovich began work on medical equipment.



Returning to Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. It is known that on it took 10 years to bring the device to mind and it appeared on sale only in 1983. He weighed about 1 kg and was 25 cm high. 35 minutes could work in talk mode, and charged for ten whole hours. cost he had some crazy money - $ 3,500, and even despite this he had wildly popular. Yes, for a phone that cost was comparable to a good used car.



Nokia Cityman

In Russia, cellular communication appeared (in its usual form) in 1991. The most popular then were the phones of the Finnish company Nokia. The devices weighed almost 3 kg, and cost (with connection) $4000. A minute of conversation cost $1.



Neil Papworth: 'I didn't realize this was a historic event'

A young employee of the Sema Group, Neil Papworth, began to GSM standard testing. Number identification has already been implemented calling line and a service that allows you to block this feature. And in spare time Neil tried to get mobile lines transmitted the text. In December 1992, the world's first SMS was poisoned. (Short Message Service - short message service). Papworth was sure that his innovation will be used only for mailing all sorts of service messages, but everything turned out differently - by 2015 every second 20 thousand SMS were sent in the world.



Nokia 2110

After being able to send messages, phones began to decrease in size, but the displays became larger. At iconic Nokia 2110 on the screen fit as many as three lines of the message. And in the phone itself managed to shove a stopwatch, a calculator, an alarm clock, and that the newest SMS feature. It was on this Nokia model that the same Nokia Tune melody, which was later included in the standard package for all company phones.



StarTAC

Since 1996, the time has come for experiments with form. First telephoneit was the Motorola MicroTAC 9800X with a hinged lid, but the first full-fledged clamshell was StarTAC, under its cover there was a speaker and a battery, and on the bottom there were buttons and a microphone.



The first slider was the Nokia 8110, which became wildly popular after the release of The Matrix. In Russia, she was funnyly nicknamed "banana".



V70

In 2002, Motorola, trying to stay in the market, introduced the V70 model: there the keyboard was covered with a lid, which moved sideways when pressed.



Nokia 9000

In 1997, the first hybrid pocket computer appeared - Nokia 9000. It was not a full-fledged smartphone, but it was the first phone with QWERTY keyboard that had applications. That is, he looked like a regular phone when folded, and when unfolded - a mini-laptop. Interestingly, the model did not have Internet access and such a keyboard was originally needed to work in text editors.



Nokia 9210

Well, then Nokia 9210 appeared in the world. Announcement of the first a full-fledged smartphone occurred in 2002. It had an operating room. Series S80 system.



Presentation of the first iPhone

And in 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone.

Since then, phones have evolved and continue to evolve in mostly from the inside, and the appearance remains more or less unchanged. Gone crazy designs - functionality is now more important for a gajat than appearance.

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