Mobile phones evolution: Features in focus

09 August 2010
It's the third - and last - of our series of articles charting the evolution of mobile phones. After checking on the way form factors have changed over time and remembering all those devices that the cell phones killed, it's now time to focus on the features...

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  • 12 Aug 2010

why the camera category is not included?

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    • ezekiel_zick
    • t7X
    • 12 Aug 2010

    I just l0ve diz Article... Hehehe.. I l0ve my 2700c.. Wuahahaha...!

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      • Anonymous
      • L6Z
      • 12 Aug 2010

      motorola first mobile maker i love you

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        • Alok_NEPAL
        • t@J
        • 12 Aug 2010

        Nice piece of work, these are the features looked after in mobile. my heartiest thanks to the writer.........

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          • Anonymous
          • P%n
          • 12 Aug 2010

          Anonymous, 12 Aug 2010Why Apple doesn't have memory card slot extension? Because:... moreAccessing terabytes of data wirelessly seems like a better solution.

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            • Anonymous
            • P%n
            • 12 Aug 2010

            Anonymous, 12 Aug 2010Why Apple doesn't have memory card slot extension? Because:... moreHave fun juggling three or four Micro SD cards, don't forget to unmount them properly before swapping them.

            It's always fun when your settings all revert to default because your phone can't access files on the memory card.

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              • Anonymous
              • P%n
              • 12 Aug 2010

              Anonymous, 11 Aug 2010How did Nokia even get into this discussion?? Anyways Nokia... moreReally?

              You obviously never came across Nokia's earliest phones with Bluetooth where they wouldn't work with other headsets.

              Nokia's first "wireless" bluetooth headset was a joke it had a wire on it.

              The headset supplied with Blackberries is interchangeable with the iPhone headset, neither of them work with Nokia's

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                • Anonymous
                • S2C
                • 12 Aug 2010

                Why Apple doesn't have memory card slot extension? Because:

                Apple has not developed their own memory card standard. :D

                When that happens, we, regular folk will be "taught" by our Lord and God Steve Jobs how microSD has become "obsolete" and how we must "at all cost" replace it with the Apple standard. Or else. We would all be "douche bags" :D :D :D

                Then our God and Lord Steve Jobs would sell us the "revolutionary new" standard memory cards at triple the standard price :D

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                  • Anonymous
                  • PEd
                  • 11 Aug 2010

                  Anonymous, 11 Aug 2010You are 100% wrong the iPhone uses a standard 3.5 mm socket... moreHow did Nokia even get into this discussion?? Anyways Nokia is 100% standard.

                  The Iphone headset on the other hand only works with Iphones....

                  The headphones will work but NOT the headset!

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                    • Guy
                    • xka
                    • 11 Aug 2010

                    Anonymous, 11 Aug 2010that explains why there were so many irrelevant digs agains... moreIrrelevant? HARDLY. I bet your head must have exploded when the Galaxy S won that head-to-head review. xD

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                      • Anonymous
                      • P%n
                      • 11 Aug 2010

                      [deleted post]that explains why there were so many irrelevant digs against Apple.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • upf
                        • 11 Aug 2010

                        Though I must say that Nokia's constribution is great in this evolution. They have pioneered many standards. Hope they set world on fire again may be in the form of MeeGo OS.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • P%n
                          • 11 Aug 2010

                          Anonymous, 10 Aug 2010No, you are mistaken... Yes headset standards of differen... moreYou are 100% wrong the iPhone uses a standard 3.5 mm socket interchangeable with Blackberry, HTC, Motorola and the newest SonyEricsson's (X10 series), or normal headphones from stores in this case it's Nokia who are the odd ones out.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • P%n
                            • 11 Aug 2010

                            The SonyEricsson P800 had WiFi or WLAN as you called it back then, it's missing from your specs.

                            The first Nokia with Bluetooth was the 6210 Cyber Silver edition, an updated 6210 that was also Nokia's first tri-band phone, it predated the 6310.

                            Micro USB does not support video unlike Apples 30 pin dock connector, which uses usb at the other end of the cable anyway which is fast becoming the standard for chargers with HTC, SonyEricsson, Huawei and others using wall chargers with a USB socket and a separate data/charging cable.



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                              • Supankid
                              • Re2
                              • 11 Aug 2010

                              As always very informative. Remember the nokia 3650 3660. Memories.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • tDQ
                                • 11 Aug 2010

                                and you guys forget about the good-old-now-defunct Siemens again...
                                anyone remember Siemens SL45?

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                                  • ihponeisunSICK
                                  • PTU
                                  • 11 Aug 2010

                                  Steve Jobs said we should like miroSD, MiniUSB and a radio?

                                  Why, those graphs show people do want that stuff.
                                  Iphone is not very nice

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • M8T
                                    • 11 Aug 2010

                                    Thank You Nokia for all your innovation!!

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • ibc
                                      • 11 Aug 2010

                                      hunk143, 10 Aug 2010I must say, Samsung didn't contribute much to the History o... moreHmmm.. maybe recently Samsung started to contribute something... like Samsung Wave was the first use Bluetooth v3.0 and first SuperAmoled screen...

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                                        • Tech-King (Aman)
                                        • PyD
                                        • 11 Aug 2010

                                        GSMArena.. YOU MADE MY DAY!

                                        I just loved this article series abt mobile evolution. Brought back alot of memories & nostalgia in me. Sparkled my interest in mobile phones once again..

                                        Thanks to the team.. & HAVE A BLAST !!