Acknowledgments
I think back to my first mobile phone which I bought around 1996. It was a Motorola. It was the size of a small brick, and had a pull-out walkie-talkie like antenna. It actually felt pretty cool in my hands, and was fun to carry around, but the reception was absolutely terrible, often full of static, distortion, and at times, completely unrecognizable voice transmission. Of course, it had no camera. Some time later I upgraded to a Nokia 6160. This was the first cellphone that I felt was a true mobile phone. It had amazing clarity, and many other features. However, it was not until I purchased a Motorola V551 cellphone that I experience a camera within a phone. It was a basic camera, only VGA quality, but it was the entry point ...
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