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  2. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission of speech by signal has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent.

  3. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    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. 1995: Caller ID implemented nationally in USA; 1999: creation of the Asterisk Private branch exchange

  4. History of videotelephony - Wikipedia

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    The 155 gram (5.5 oz.) camera could also take 20 photos and convey them by e-mail, with the camera phone retailing at the time for 40,000 yen, about US$325 in 1999. [68] [69] The VP-210 was released in May 1999 and used its single front-facing 110,000-pixel camera to send two images per second through Japan's PHS mobile phone network system.

  5. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    Two decades of evolution of mobile phones, from a 1992 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. A mobile phone, or cell phone, [a] is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones (landline phones).

  6. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    The history of mobile phones can be traced back to two-way radios permanently installed in vehicles such as taxicabs, police cruisers, railroad trains, and the like. Later versions such as the so-called transportables or "bag phones" were equipped with a cigarette-lighter plug so that they could also be carried, and thus could be used as either ...

  7. US Supreme Court tosses intellectual disability ruling on ...

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    The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals needs to clarify its ruling that Joseph Clifton Smith's death sentence for a 1997 murder must be set aside in light ...

  8. World's longest-serving death row inmate cleared of 1966 murders

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    An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.

  9. Videotelephony - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] The camera phone was the same size as similar contemporary mobile phones, but sported a large camera lens and a 5 cm (2 inch) colour TFT display capable of displaying 65,000 colors, and was able to process two video frames per second. [11] [12]