Having to go into a certain location to talk to somebody by voice across the planet was a bit of a hassle but still very welcoming in the department of technology that let us communicate almost anywhere on Earth almost instantaneously. The first cellphone was called a Field telephone used by the military in 1910 and was used during the two World Wars. The first official cellphone that was released to the public was invented by Martin Cooper, a Motorola company engineer in 1973. From then, people jumped on the cellular phone bandwagon. In 1994, the first official smartphone with applications like a PDA, Simon, was released to the public. It was the size of a brick, had a digital touchscreen with email, a calendar, calculator, and a settings menu! With the price tag over just over a grand, this bad boy was a must. The second smartphone that came to the glory of the consumer was The Nokia Comminicator series in which had a clamshell form. The smartphone was released in 1996. Later on that year in March, HP released the mother of smartphones: The HP OmniGo 700LX Communicator Plus. Such a long name for a device, but with good reason. This device had a PDA-like functionality. It had a flip form factor with a keyboard on the bottom form and a screen on the top. It had MIDI-formatted music on it, folder browsing, a photo viewer, email, calculator, and even games! Although was still in black and white, the smartphone was a revolution in the mobile voice technology department. As more companies jumped in, years went by and more and more smart mobile devices were being released. In the mid-to late 2000’s Symbian, Blackberry, Nokia, HP, and many other companies released smartphones with complex operating systems that became extremely popular and became more focused on entertainment. With browsing, video playing, and more things that you could only do on a regular computer were being implementing on smartphones. Apple, in 2007, revolutionized the smartphone with their iPhone. The iPhone had a whole dedicated app marketplace, a gorgeous LCD touchscreen and many features that other smartphones didn’t. A year later, Google came out with the first Android smartphone. As years past after that, the iOS and Android devices became the dominant smartphones in the marketplace and became bigger, more powerful, and more smart. Each year they came out with more and more features. Today, the best smartphones have become almost as powerful as a standard desktop and even have just about all the capabilities of a laptop PC!
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