Top 7 Earliest Mobile Phones In The World

As of now, having a mobile phone is considered essential for our daily lives. In fact, even kids in some primary schools were given mobile phones by their parents so it will help them in school. It is hard to imagine that we live without the help of a mobile phone these days.

It can be said as the first thing that we see each day as well as the last. Currently, big companies such as Apple, Huawei, Samsung, and many other brands are in a race towards making the best smartphones with new features and specifications that money can buy. There are well over thousands of phone models to choose from in the market.

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There are also great offers being made to entice the users into buying it giving us huge options of smartphones to purchase for ourselves. But do you also know what the earliest model of mobile phone that was sold in the market is? Here we would like to share with you the top 7 earliest mobile phones that people can buy at one point in time.

7. Palm Treo 600 (2003)

The brand Palm might be something that you have never heard of especially since this brand might not be available in your country. The Palm Treo 600 was introduced in 2003 but the sale of the mobile phone was stopped a year later. The price was not that cheap at $500.

Before the existence of the Palm Treo 600, the Palm company only sold personal digital assistant(PDA) gadgets. But their strategy changed when they decided to introduce the Palm Treo 600 which was marketed as a multi-function gadget that combines the functions of both a PDA and telephone into one device.

6. Sanyo SCP-5300(2002)

Today camera is one of the crucial aspects of a phone and having one is considered a must for every model out there. But in the year 2002, a camera's function on a mobile phone is considered a new concept and one of the earliest models that have this feature will be the Sanyo SCP-5300.

This telephone was sold at the price of $399.95 and depending on the version this telephone can store between 10 to 79 pictures. This telephone also lets you surf the web but the cost is way too expensive since the rate of the internet at the time is according to the rate/min used.

5. Nokia 5110 (1998)

The Nokia 5110 is one of the most popular telephones in the 1990s and early 2000. This phone is mostly popular due to its durability and it is suitable for both teenagers and adults. It was retailed at $100 and it was considered to have the best LCD screen at the time.

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Most people who were born in the 80s would have known this phone, especially its popular game, Snake. This model definitely held strong in the market for so long before a newer model which is much lighter and small came out.

4 Motorola StarTAC (1996)

StarTAC is a mobile phone launched by Motorola in the year 1996 and it was the first phone to be introduced that can flip. This flipping concept got quite the attention of people around and it was considered another big revolution in the mobile phone industry.

The company managed to sell almost 60 million units and this figure was quite surprising since the price of the phone was very expensive at $1000. Not just that but Motorola StarTAC is also the first phone to use a lithium-ion battery.

The phone also has vibrating features aside from ringing whenever someone calls the phone. The production of this model was stopped in 2007.

3. Nokia 1011 (1992)

The Nokia 1011 is the first Global Systems for Mobile(GSM) phone in the market and it was produced on a large scale. Some of the telephone's main features include the ability to send and receive text messages and having a memory to store 99 telephone numbers.

This telephone is not only big but also heavy. The weight is 482g and to make a comparison with the current phone, an iPhone 8 is only 142g. Aside from that, the screen is also small which is completely normal for the earliest mobile phone on the market.

2. Motorola Microtac 9800X

Motorola Microtac 9800X was introduced in the year 1989 and surprisingly the production was stopped two years later. This is truly mobile as you can take it anywhere you want and back then it was considered a new technology.

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The price definitely did not come cheap with a whopping price of $2495 at that time. There are several cool features of the phone like a tone played when the button is pressed, able to store names and telephone numbers as well as a dot-matrix screen.

1. Motorola Dynatac 8000X

The Motorola Dynatac 8000X was sold back in 1984 and it has a huge price tag of $4000! It is considered the first mobile phone to be sold to the public. The previous version of the mobile phone is more focused on military use.

At the time, this telephone can only be owned by the rich and most of the owners of this phone is businessmen that are constantly riding their cars wherever since this telephone has a cable connected to the car.

At the time the term cell phone is odd and not known to the public but the word mobile phone is considered the phone that is in a car since the earliest mobile phone is attached to a car.

Source:

• Wikipedia

• Webdesigner Depot

• Oldest.org

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