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The first Bluetooth mobile phone was the unreleased prototype Ericsson T36, though it was the revised Ericsson model T39 that actually made it to store shelves in June 2001. However Ericsson released the R520m in Quarter 1 of 2001, [23] making the R520m the first ever commercially available Bluetooth phone. In parallel, IBM introduced the IBM ...
Google first introduced emoji in Gmail in October 2008, in collaboration with au by KDDI, [38] and Apple introduced the first release of Apple Color Emoji to iPhone OS on 21 November 2008. [54] Initially, Apple's emoji support was implemented for holders of a SoftBank SIM card; the emoji themselves were represented using SoftBank's Private Use ...
1988: First transatlantic fiber optic cable TAT-8, carrying 40,000 circuits; 1990: analog AMPS was superseded by Digital AMPS. 1991: the GSM mobile phone network is started in Finland, with the first phone call in Tampere. [44] 1993: Telecom Relay Service available for the disabled; 1994: The IBM Simon becomes the first smartphone on the market.
The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, also known as T-Mobile G1, announced on September 23, 2008. [29] [30] HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1, the first commercially released device running Android (2008)
The first calculator capable of symbolic computing was the HP-28C, released in 1987. It could, for example, solve quadratic equations symbolically. The first graphing calculator was the Casio fx-7000G released in 1985. The two leading manufacturers, HP and TI, released increasingly feature-laden calculators during the 1980s and 1990s.
An old rotary dial telephone AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.
In 1800, Volta invented the first true battery, storing and releasing a charge through a chemical reaction instead of physically, which came to be known as the voltaic pile. The voltaic pile consisted of pairs of copper and zinc discs piled on top of each other, separated by a layer of cloth or cardboard soaked in brine (i.e., the electrolyte ).
The First Theremin Concert for Extraterrestrials was the world's first musical METI broadcast dispatched from the Evpatoria deep-space communications complex in Crimea, [80] and was sent seven years before NASA's Across the Universe message. Seven different melodies were transmitted from audio-cassette recordings of the theremin being played by ...