20 years of GSM digital mobile phones

[email protected] wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
How far the cellphone has come since the Nokia 1011
Twenty years ago today, on 9 November 1992, Nokia launched the world’s first commercially available GSM digital mobile phone – the Nokia 1011 – strengthening consumer interest in the world of mobile connectivity. The candybar device – which weighed a whopping 475g and could sustain a conversation for no more than 90 minutes – also introduced text messaging, viewable on the handset’s two-line display.…

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