Mobile Phone History and Statistics

Why? Competitive Edge in the Workforce and Increased Opportunities.

1983 Motorola DynaTAC. Supports 1 hour non-stop talking, 10 hours to recharge.

1993 First PDA/phone combo. Thing looks terrible compared to today's phone.

1996 Motorola StarTAC. First clamshell/display screen. Right hand side is Nokia 8110, popularized in the Matrix movie.

1998 Most popular consumer model cell phone, Nokia 5110.

1999 Internet service on cell phones first introduced in Japan.

2000 Nokia 3210, sported internal antenna and T9 text message. 160 million of these phones were sold

2001 First phone with color screen on left. On right, first phone with 360kb of memory.

2001 Mobile phone subscribers worldwide passed 1 billion users.

2004 Motorola Razor set new standard for sleek design in the industry.

2006 First few smartphones came out: BB Pearl, LG Chocolate, Samsung Blackjack.

2006 Mobile phone subscribers passed 2.5 billion users worldwide. Next, something amazing happened.

2007 Jan 9th, 2007. Steve Jobs, "today, Apple is going to reinvent the iPhone." Hundreds waited overnight outside of stores. Off duty police officers hired to watch stores. Stock outages within the hour. iPhone started at $499. AT&T reported 146,000 phones activated in the first weekend.

2008 Google's G1 Android phone first released. 1 million sold in little over a year.

1 in 4 people in the US own a smartphone according to comScore. 1 in 3 according to Nielsen. Nielsen also reported that by the end of 2011, there will be more smartphones than feature phones.

We currently have about 57 million people with smartphones.

Main 3 big mobile players are RIM, Google, and Apple. Few months ago, Apple was ahead of Android. It'll be interested to see what the Verizon iPhone does to market share.

Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/notixtech/mobile-and-social-media-6841360

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[fordphoenix345]

very informative!

[JasmineeGujral]

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