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1973: The world's first mobile phone call is made, by Motorola's Martin Cooper, on this prototype analogue phone.
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1982: A Telecom ad spruiking the wonder of in-car phones.
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1989: Try fitting this in your pocket. An early analogue mobile phone.
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1994: The Nokia GSM 2100 series went on sale for a whopping $2000.
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1995: The Sony CM-R111 was the size of a credit card and weighed just 185g.
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1995: What every modern businesswoman needs: a mobile office.
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1995: Motorola's Pocket Classic 1100.
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1996: NEC's Opera flipped open.
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1996: Nokia's 9000 Communicator wowed with its features, including a personal
organizer, computer and fax.
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1996: The snazzy Fizz phones from Philips.
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1997: Japan, as usual, lead mobile phone development with the world's first 'TV phone', letting users see each other in black and white. Photo: Reuters
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1997: Ericsson's 738 was the smallest and lightest mobile phone to date when it was released. It weighed 137g.
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1998: Sharp's MC-GI GSM featured a large screen.
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1999: We haven't yet learnt the art of super-fast one-thumb texting. The Ericsson Chatboard featured a clip-in keyboard to help with faster emailing and texting.
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2000: Nokia's 8210 was probably the first mobile phone for many. And look! It comes in different colours!
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2000: Get news on your mobile phone! The first WAP-enabled phones allowed access to stripped-down websites. Pictured is the Ericsson R320S. Photo: John Woudstra.
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2001: The Kyocera QCP 6035 was one of the world's first 'smart phones'. It allowed users to access the internet, not just stripped-down WAP sites.
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2002: The first Blackberry mobile phone is released. Photo: Rob Homer
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2003: Nokia combined the handheld gamer with a mobile phone for the N-gage. Photo: Marco Del Grande
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2004: We're not quite sure how this one worked, but the Nokia 7280 was one of a range of fashion-conscious mobile phones that tried to attract buyers with sleek designs.
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2007: The phone that changed it all? Apple releases the first version of its iPhone. It had 8 gigabytes of memory.
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2008: And here come the iPhone challengers. Samsung's Omnia.
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2010: Google's answer to the iPhone, the Android. Photo: Chris Ratcliffe
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