Evolution of Mobile phones

                Mobile phones has certainly came a long way from the Motorola's DynaTACs in 1984 to smartphones available these days. These first used to weight between 500- 900 grams (CBC, 2013). The first original smartphone was launched in 1993 by Bellsouth and IBM (CBC, 2013). They announced their creation of the Simon personal communicator phone, touted as the world's first smartphone (CBC, 2013). The device, with a $899 suggested pricetag, boasted such features as: a pager, e-mail, a stylus for writing on the screen, with handwriting reflected as-is for faxes, a complete keypad featuring letters and numbers and a calendar that could be updated automatically from a remote computer (CBC, 2013).

                           The first camera-phones were Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300 launched back in 2001 (CBC, 2013). Web on the mobile phone is certainly not new and has come a long way from black and white WAP services.

                          BlackBerry's first integrated phone (BlackBerry 6210) was unveiled in 2003 which offered features such as email, texting, a web browser, BlackBerry messenger service, allowing for web-based communication between BlackBerry users (CBC, 2013).

                          One of the major developments in history of smartphones was the launch of first iPhone by Apple on 2007. The company described the phone as combining three products into one handheld device: a mobile phone, an iPod and a wireless communication device (CBC, 2013). One of the revolutionary feature was the touch screen which allowed users to command the device using fingers (CBC, 2013). 

                                                                                Sources

              http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/02/tech-cellphone-anniversary-top-moments-in-history.html

              http://global.factiva.com.library.sheridanc.on.ca/ha/default.aspx