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1 Cellphones

Car phones were around in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first widely available handheld cellphone. The DynaTAC 8000x weighed almost 2 pounds, but it still cost $3,995.

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New Delhi: This is the best thing that could have happened to Windows Mobile users as also the diehard Blackberry addicts. The marriage of the two bitter rivals is on the cards. No, Ontario-based BlackBerry owner Research in Motion (RIM) is not going all the way with world’s largest software maker, but just hitching a ride.

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