Cell Phones From The 1990s

Mobile phones have come up a long way, here'due south a throwback to the best and well-nigh innovative phones of the 90s.

That phone you're holding in your manus right now to read this article, is a ridiculously powerful super computer. If we threw a Samsung Galaxy S7 or fifty-fifty Apple'south original iPhone from 2008, into a fourth dimension machine and sent it to the Johnson Space Center in 1965. Nosotros probably would never have heard the iconic, heart stopping phrase: "Houston, we've had a trouble" from the Apollo 13 space crew (frequently misquoted every bit "Houston, nosotros take a trouble" because of the picture show).

The processing ability of the computers used for mankind'south first landing on the moon (Apollo 11) are laughable at today's standard. The Apollo Guidance Computer enabled astronauts to enter simple commands in verbs and nouns to command their spacecraft. It ran approximately with 64Kbyte of retentivity and operated at 0.043 MHz. For comparison the S7 has 4GB of memory and a processing ability of 2.3 Ghz.

We take a await at devices from the 90s, when smartphones started to gravitate towards more slim line designs, with affordable prices. Nostalgia, prepare for it.

Motorola StarTAC (1996)

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Inspired by Captain Kirk and his crew on the Enterprise, the Motorola StarTAC saw great sales despite a massive price tag of £1400. Add inflation on height and it actually works out to be around £2400 today, brand new. Those who bought it loved the flip lid and it's ergonomic design. Motorola reportedly sold about 60 million units of the StarTac.

Nokia 8110 (1996)

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To about people this beauty is known as "the assistant telephone." For millennials it's the "Matrix phone." Sadly y'all can't actually get into the Matrix with the 8110 and learn Kung Fu. But you could carry it around for days as it was i of the lightest phones at the time weighing in at 145g. It was likewise the starting time Nokia device with a clear monochrome graphic LCD brandish.

Nokia 6110 (1997)

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This ladies and gentleman is the first device to run the legendary Snake. It was from the 6110's popularity, that Nokia decided to include Snake in the majority of their phones and future sequels of Snake. The 6110 improved on the Nokia 2110 with a smaller size and improved talk fourth dimension. Another first; it was the kickoff phone to use an ARM processor.

Siemens S10 (1998)

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The S10 wowed the world equally information technology was the first ever device with a colour screen. Capable of displaying carmine, green, blueish and white. Unfortunately the anaesthesia was short lived as consumers didn't care about the innovation as Siemens would promise. The S10 is still worth a mention for the innovation and it inspired the creation of the popular sliding Siemens SL10.

Nokia 8210 (1999)

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You weren't cool unless you were belongings Nokia's slim line beauty at the time. Information technology's legacy lives on as the 8210 is at present popular amidst drug dealers. We spoke to a dealer known equally Sonny, who expressed his love for the 8210. "It's small, peng (beautiful) and lasts for days. All-time matter though, the Popo (constabulary) can't rail it, bare apps on phones nowadays become you caught." The 8210 does not take GPRS, NFC, WiFi or even Bluetooth. Making it harder for government to runway downwardly dealers.

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