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A Call from the Past - 10 Years of Mobile Phone Development
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Timeline: 2004
2004
- Development on the camera phone front was an ongoing project, and in a year's time, VGA resolution cameras went into the megapixel range with the Siemens S65 as one of the first few devices hitting the 1.3-megapixel mark. An increase in imaging resolution won't be the shocker as the year progressed, but the evolution of the mobile phone as a mobile internet device capable of receiving and sending multimedia files over the air looked to be the next big thing.
- With both GPRS and WAP 2.0 to work on during the 2G and 2.5G era, speeds were still considerably adequate for smaller MMS messages, but new standards were on the rise. Bluetooth connectivity for mobile phones took to the streets and slowly but surely replaced the old-school method of having an infrared connection from your device to your PC to synchronize your data wirelessly and thus bidding farewell to line-of-sight connections. Of course, when it came to wired connectivity, there's also the USB port which was adopted by phone manufacturers soon enough, but not soon enough for Nokia with its Nokia 6220 upgrade, the Nokia 6230 .
- The PDA phone enthusiasts were also on the rise with a slew of power packed devices from the O2 branding, and back then, the O2 XDA IIi and O2 XDA IIs reigned supreme with its Windows Pocket PC 2003 OS and its myriad of multimedia and productivity features included in their devices. This would be the start of a segmentation between both Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and the other standard phone interfaces (and ironically, the convergence of phones in the next five years).
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