The Smartphone Story

What this quiz asks

• Martin Cooper made the first handheld mobile phone call in 1973 while working for which company?
• Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X, the first handheld mobile phone sold to the public, earned which nickname?
• The mobile game Snake first came preloaded in 1997 on phones made by which company?
• What kind of battery powers nearly every modern smartphone?
• From Cupcake in 2009 onwards, Android's sweet-treat version names followed alphabetical order.
• The first ever SMS text message, sent in December 1992, wished its reader what?
• BlackBerry phones were made by Research In Motion, a company from which country?
• Could owners of the original 2007 iPhone swap out its battery themselves?
• Select ALL of these that were operating systems for mobile phones.
• The original iPhone went on sale without an App Store for third-party apps.
• Which 1994 device, with a touchscreen, email and built-in apps, is often called the first smartphone?
• Order these phones by release date, earliest first.
• Which phone, sold as the T-Mobile G1 in 2008, was the first to go on sale running Android?
• Earlier touch phones often needed a stylus. Which type of touchscreen let the 2007 iPhone respond to bare fingers?
• Select ALL of these features that the original 2007 iPhone had.
• Samsung's large-screen Galaxy Note of 2011 helped popularise which word for a phone almost as big as a tablet?
• How much did the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cost when it first went on sale in the United States?
• Which iPhone introduced the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, built into the home button, in 2013?
• In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita designed a famous set of 176 emoji for which Japanese mobile internet service?
• Which American company supplied the tough glass on the front of the first iPhone?