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A Call from the Past - 10 Years of Mobile Phone Development
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2002
- In a day and time when multi-functional cellular phones rose to its calling, there was also the popular Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) manufacturer, Palm, which was well known for its devices' ability to keep your schedules organized and synced to your PC with ease. The first foray into the PDA phones market for www.hardwarezone.com came in the form of the Palm Handspring Treo 180.
- The emergence of the various OS such as Pocket PC 2002 (with its current iteration as the Windows Mobile platform) and the Symbian UIQ and S60 series posed stiff competition to Palm's dominance over the PDA market in the earlier days. But whilst the three main mobile phone operating systems were slugging it out with each other, Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of the Blackberry, came out in full force by 2002, providing e-mail solutions to the corporate executives who require a 24/7 connection to their work mails.
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