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In June 2017, a quote, purportedly taken from George Orwell"s novel 1984, spread widely online, forming the basis for several memes that presented it as a remarkable prediction of the power and ubiquitousness of smartphones.

The line is from one of the characters that works for the Government, otherwise known as Big Brother. He says: “The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening.”

Perhaps most terrifying of all is hearing O"Brien seeming to predict our current state of apathy, saying, "The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what"s happening." In 2017, "1984" resonates louder than ever.

The best big phones offer huge screens and massive batteries, but at the cost of easy one-handed use. Opposite of compact, these large devices let you lose yourself in games, videos, and text. All that screen real estate also makes it easier to type without typos.

Alongside their more expansive displays and improved longevity on a charge, the best big phones pack more elaborate cameras, with a greater quantity of lenses and the best optics and sensors on the market. Rest assured, we"ve tested them all.

If you"re ready to go big on your next phone, we"ve put together a list of some of our super-sized favorites. And should you want one of the best small phones instead, we"ve got you covered there, too.

Our pick for the best big phone belongs to Samsung and the Galaxy S23 Ultra. This is a beast of a device with a massive 6.8-inch Super AMOLED display, the powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chipset, an amazing 200MP camera, and the fan-favorite S Pen.

Battery life is vastly improved since the Galaxy S22 Ultra (which is still available for sale). Samsung kept a similar to design to last year, though we don"t think the display is flat enough yet since the curves can get in the way. The Galaxy S23 Ultra is also the most expensive traditional smartphone on this list at a starting price of $1,199. At least you get a base storage of 256GB.

Other than the new even longer battery life, Apple"s changed up the cameras to add a 48MP main sensor, swapped the notch for a new Dynamic Island cutout, and added an always-on display. Several of these upgrades are arguably the same as those seen on Android phones for the past several years, but Apple"s level of polish takes them to another level.

If you want the best big phone for your money, then look no further than the OnePlus 11. This flagship boasts top-tier specs, great cameras, and stellar battery life for just $699. It goes head-to-head with the likes of the Pixel 7 Pro, Galaxy S23, and iPhone 14 Pro, all while costing less.

Samsung continues to show that it’s serious about midrange phones with the Galaxy A53. Opt for this model and you can get a device with a screen that refreshes at 120Hz and delivers reasonable performance for hundreds less than what Samsung charges for one of its flagships.

Yes, the $449 price of the Galaxy A53 means some compromises, such as a less powerful Exynos 1280 chipset instead of the top-of-the-line Snapdragon silicon found in the Galaxy S22 series. We also wish Samsung didn’t include a superfluous macro camera with the A53’s array of lenses.

On the surface, not much seems to have changed from the Galaxy S21 Ultra to the Galaxy S22 Ultra. After all, both phones sport 6.8 inches displays with fast refresh rates.

But beyond the surface, Samsung packed some big changes into the Galaxy S22 Ultra. The new phone features a super-bright display, boasting a peak brightness of 1,750 nits. (We measured 1,359 nits on a light meter, which still makes the S22 Ultra one of the brightest displays we’ve seen.) The refresh rate has been tweaked to scale all the way down to 1Hz when the action on the screen is static.

Beyond display improvements, the Galaxy S22 Ultra features a new chipset, fast 45W charging and a bigger main camera sensor that helps better capture low-light photos. Android fans who want a big-screen phone with premium features should choose this Samsung model.

With an expansive 6.7-inch OLED display, the Pixel 7 Pro is a large phone without a doubt. But thanks to the curved edges and front glass, it easily fits in your hand (though it is a bit slippery). It has a large 5,000 mAh battery that, somehow, continues to manage to disappoint us in our battery life test.

But the Pixel 7 Pro’s strengths come down to its new Tensor G2 chipset and its cameras. The photos the Pixel 7 Pro can take are amazing, with beautiful colors, sharp focus, and nifty features like Photo Unblur. Tensor G2 itself is a big improvement over the first-generation chip, offering performance that’s closer to Qualcomm.

If it’s big phones you like, why not opt for a phone that gets even bigger when you open it up? That’s the idea of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, which features a 6.2-inch cover display but can open up to reveal a tablet-sized 7.6-inch screen.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus features an ample 6.6-inch display. Like the Galaxy S23 Ultra, the S23 Plus offers a peak brightness of 1,750 nits, making it easy to see the display when you’re outside. Unlike the S23 Ultra, you can have this phone for less than $1,000 with a base storage of 256GB.

Unfortunately for this larger basic iPhone, it doesn"t have a 120Hz display refresh rate, a telephoto camera, or particularly fast charging. These are all things that its Android-using rivals all have, meaning it"s a hard sell in some ways.

Fast-refreshing displays are becoming a more common feature among flagship phones, though most of the phones on this list top out at a 120Hz rate. The Motorola Edge Plus (2022) does that one better with a 6.7-inch panel that refreshes at 144Hz when your on-screen activity demands it. That makes for smoother scrolling and more immersive graphics.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset powering Motorola’s flagship can keep up with any Android phone released in 2022, and the 50MP main camera can produce some great shots in the right conditions. We wish the 4,800 mAh battery in the Motorola Edge Plus was better equipped to last long on a charge, and Motorola’s software upgrade policy lags behind Samsung’s. But if you can find this flagship at the right price, the Motorola Edge Plus has some appeal to gamers who like big displays.

How to choose the best big phone for youAndroid or iPhone? Android phones give you more choice in terms of price, size and innovative designs — many of them happen to be larger, too. However, iPhones offer speedier software updates, better games and apps and better security and privacy. See our iPhone vs Android face-off.

Unlocked or carrier?Most shoppers in the U.S. buy new phones through their wireless carrier. But an unlocked phone gives you the freedom to buy the device without any sort of contract and then bring it to the provider you want to use.

Screen size: For fans of big phones, 6 inches and up is a good place to start. The biggest phones are 6.5 to just under 7 inches. If you want something you can easily use with one hand, go with one of the best small phones with a screen under 6 inches.

Cameras:Don"t pay attention to the megapixel count. Instead, look at camera face-offs between phones to see the photo quality and look for special features like Night Mode to get better quality in low light. Also see our best camera phone roundup.

Battery life:Generally, phones with larger batteries (measured in mAh) offer the longest battery life, but that"s not always the case. That"s why we run our own custom battery tests, where phones repeatedly load webpages over a T-Mobile data connection while set to 150 nits of display brightness until they run out of juice.

When it comes to performance, we rely on such synthetic benchmarks as Geekbench 5 and 3DMark to measure graphics performance. These tests allow us to compare performance across iPhones and Android devices. We also run a real-world video transcoding test on each phone using the Adobe Premiere Rush app and time the result. (We unfortunately have to skip this test on some phones due to app compatibility issues, but we attempt this benchmark with each device we get in to review.)

To measure the quality of a phone"s display, we perform lab tests to determine the brightness of the panel (in nits), as well as how colorful each screen is (DCI-P3 color gamut). In these cases, higher numbers are better. We also measure color accuracy of each panel with a Delta-E rating, where lower numbers are better and score of 0 is perfect.

Last but not least, we take the best phones out in the field to take photos outdoors, indoors and at night in low light to see how they perform versus their closest competitors. We take shots of landscapes, food, portraits and more, and also allow you to be the judge with side-by-side comparisons in our reviews.Round up of today"s best deals

Over the past 20 years, cell phones have evolved from simple devices made for mobile calling to smartphones that serve as mini computers. As phones got smarter, so did their screens. Take a journey back in time to see how modern phone displays came to be.

In 1992, 8 years before the new millennium, IBM debuted the first smartphone: the Simon Personal Communicator. It featured a black-and-white 160 x 293 LCD touchscreen measuring 4.5 inches by 1.4 inches. In fact, Simon is believed to be the first commercially available phone with a touchscreen, and it came with a stylus for streamlined navigation.

For the rest of the 1990s and into the 2000s, black-and-white passive matrix screens were the norm. The rows and columns combined to create text, giving off a blocky appearance.

In 2001, Nokia released the first smartphone to feature a monochromatic display. The Nokia 8250 allowed users to change the background from gray to a bright blue. That same year, the Sony Ericsson T68m and Mitsubishi Trium Eclipse were released, offering 256 colors.

Released in June 2007, the iPhone introduced many firsts. It was the first phone with an operating system, responsive touchscreen, and touch interface that replaced the traditional QWERTY keyboard. The phone screen itself comprised a video graphic array (VGA) display and offered a resolution of 320 x 480 – far exceeding other phones at the time.

In the next few years, phone manufacturers followed iPhone’s example and began making devices with multi-touch interfaces, higher screen resolutions, and larger phone screen sizes. In 2011, Samsung unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S2, which featured a 480 x 800 resolution. Then, in 2013, Motorola’s Moto X was thrust onto the scene with a screen size of 720 x 1280 pixels.

Let’s start with LCDs. TFT LCD displays are considered the most common. They deliver quality images and higher resolutions. IPS LCDs, which are mainly found in higher-end smartphones, offer improved battery life and deliver wider viewing angles. These types of displays are often found in iPhones, but by Apple’s proprietary names, “Retina,” or “Super Retina.” Then, there are capacitive touchscreen LCDs, which rely on the touch of a human finger for input.

OLEDs are considered an up-and-coming display technology – they don’t require any backlighting to display pixels. Fundamentally, each pixel emits it own light, allowing for darker blacks and brighter whites. AMOLEDs combine a TFT display with an OLED display for energy savings, while Super AMOLED displays deliver even brighter screens and more power savings.

When choosing a new Net10 phone, you may feel overwhelmed with all the display options available. First, consider the phone screen size. The bigger the phone screen, the bigger the phone. If you’d like to be able to slip your phone easily inside a pocket or purse, opt for a smaller phone size, such as 4-inch, 4.7-inch, or 5-inch. If you’d prefer a bigger screen size for gaming or watching videos, you’ll benefit from choosing a phone with a 5.5-inch, 6.4-inch, or similar size.

Next, you’ll need to consider the display technology. OLED screens are known for their faster response times, better contrast, and longer battery lives. LCD screens, on the other hand, are better for outdoor viewing, deliver a natural color reproduction, and offer sharper images.

Last up? Resolution. If you’re looking for a phone with higher levels of pixel detail, you’ll want a screen resolution of at least 1920 x 1080, or full HD. If picture quality isn’t on the top of your must-have list, you should be safe choosing a lower screen resolution.

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“We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts but are not allowed to touch each other’s phones because they are private.”

“In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be.”

“An entire planet pretending to be uncomfortable with the humanitarian crisis while engrossed in distractions on their mobile screens. Humanity ignoring their inevitable existential crisis.”

“Edison and a few others had been working on improvements to Alexander Bell’s initial “telephone” device. Tesla was attempting to make the devices work without the aid of any wires at all. One didn’t have to be much of a scientist to know that this was absurd. Even if by some miracle Tesla managed to make them function, who in the world would have any use for them?”

“The first time someone suggested that I write about my adventures was when I had just arrived in Lebanon. He looked at me with sincere curiosity, puzzled too. We were seated in a large kitchen at a friend’s house, having lunch. It was a beautiful yellow brick house, on top of a hill, very bright, the garden in bloom, wonderful colors and my story of poverty and gloom in Kosovo couldn’t be a greater contrast. We drank lovely Lebanese white wine, ate warm flatbread with labneh, foul, sujuk, and plenty of other mezze dishes.”

“The mobile industry quickly developed, and lawyers, investment bankers, consultants and contractors offered their services. The feeling of ownership of the projects and the effort of getting networks up and running within the shortest possible time span was gigantic. Engineers slept in their cars to make sure that they could start early mornings, ‘war rooms’ were kitted out with huge maps, project timelines, pictures and milestone markers. Contests ongoing between different teams in the specific country regions where we were building. Employing a thousand people in no time and generating work for tenfold that number; network and other suppliers, construction companies, distributors, retailers and other often highly skilled third parties.”

In this episode of the Harvard EdCast, they provide a glimpse into teens" online worlds and offer strategies for adults eager to connect with and help the young adults in their lives.

What are teens doing on their smartphones all the time? That question is what drove Harvard researchers Emily Weinstein and Carrie James to find out what"s happening behind teen screens. The answer is far more complicated than many adults realize. They surveyed more than 3,500 teens across the U.S. finding out everything from why they sext to how they navigate friendship dilemmas online. What really struck me about their research is as adults, we tend to offer useless advice and dismiss teen phone use as just an addiction. So parents are missing real opportunities to help teens, they say. I asked Emily to tell me more about the complex relationship teens have with their phones.

But when we recognize that actually teens concerns about their own habits sound a lot like the concerns that we have about their habits, we can start those conversations with much more of a, we"re in this with you mindset, and be in this coaching role where instead of just blowing the whistle on things being wrong, we have conversations that start with a recognition that actually teens want to feel more agency and control over their tech habits and that we can really play an important role in helping them get there if we start with what they see and what they want for themselves instead of with the assumption that we have to be in this adversarial, constant battle with them over screen time.

Carrie James: Yeah, what"s really helpful about that is that it leads us to a conversation where we recognize that we"re all vulnerable to the pull of the screen in so many ways. And the tech features that social media companies build into apps and devices, they"re really compelling. Things like infinite scrolls, you never reach the end of your feed or you want to see the latest, newest thing and notifications. We"re all tempted and pulled in by that, but recognizing that that"s one feature that all of us grapple with. But also that it"s even harder for adolescents because of their developmental sensitivities to peer feedback and validation that leads them to feel much more challenged about resisting that pull to the screen.

Jill Anderson: I think a lot of adults can relate to that feeling as well. And I want to get back to the concerns and the awareness in a little bit. But I was struck by how much of a bad rap social media gets, almost like everyone points their fingers at it as the root of all causes of young people"s problems. But your work is showing that there just isn"t a one size fits all for how teens are responding to social media. You met a lot of teens who had positive affirming relationships with social, and of course you"ve met plenty of teens who had the opposite experience. Did that surprise you? And why is it so important that we make these distinctions in our teens?

So you have one teen who"s spending an hour browsing, you know how to nail a skateboarding trick videos or learning about their interest in a particular language or culture or exploring book talk. And you have another teen who is spending it exactly that same amount of time, an hour, connecting with friends who make them feel really supported, and cousins who make them feel they"re part of a really important powerful, strong family unit. And then you have a 13 who"s spending that exact same amount of time browsing peers videos that just make them feel like, why does everyone have better friendships than me? Or why is it that I can"t have access to these things, these relationships or these feelings or these experiences that my peers have? And then you have other teens who are spending an hour looking at misinformation and conspiracy theories. And when we look at these details, we suddenly see that actually they"re having really different experiences on their screens and they"re unsurprisingly feeling really differently as a result of those experiences.

Emily Weinstein: One other piece here that"s really important is that even knowing a kid has a particular sensitivity, we still need to have this disposition toward curiosity about their experiences because that interaction between sensitivities and content and onscreen experiences is relevant once more. You can imagine that if you have two teenagers who are struggling with body image issues, you might have one whose social media feed is filled with exactly the kinds of content that really reinforce body insecurity and feeling dissatisfied with their own body. And you might have another teen who has intentionally filled their whole feed with body positivity and inspiring content and things that make them feel much more comfortable in their own skin. And so even that shared sensitivity can play out in really different ways for kids depending on what they"re doing on social media. So just once more, the details matter so much.

Emily Weinstein: We have found that there is this magic formula of open-ended questions where you"re not just asking a yes or no question, but really creating space for teens to share their perspectives. And then following with empathy and validation as the first impulse reaction. Accessing empathy has been something that we"ve been thinking and exploring a lot in our research. And one of the things we find is that one of the barriers to empathy for adults is often this feeling that we just want to roll our eyes. It feels dumb, like whatever dumb technology thing, and just say to our kids like, "Ugh, it just doesn"t matter. Just get off TikTok, put down your phone. Don"t worry about what people are doing on Snapchat." And often the what"s new, the tech piece really distracts us from seeing the familiar feelings that are under whatever teens are grappling with.

And so when we actually search for the familiar, we realize things like, oh, it"s not really Snapchat that"s the problem, it"s that my teen has just figured out that they were the only one of their friends not invited to the movies. Or it"s not really just Instagram. It"s that feeling really vulnerable as a teen feeling like you have this question about whether your friends really like you and how you fit into the world. That"s really familiar and that"s really hard. And social media is amplifying this reality, but it didn"t create it. And when we find those familiar seeds of whatever is going on in our own experiences, we can tap empathy and then follow it with real validation in a genuine way that sort of paves the way for continued sharing and positive conversations.

Carrie James: Yeah, sexting is a really hard topic, and as moms of daughters, Emily and I especially both feel that. But really slowing down and listening to teens, we learned a lot about their experiences and about how complicated it is. One thing that we heard is that there is a spectrum in terms of sexting. Like we unpack nine reasons why, for example, teens sext when they know that it can be a risky thing to do. And some of those reasons are really on the consensual and wanted end. They"re really interested in exploring sexuality, they"re curious, they want to feel closer to someone who they"re talking with or flirting with or have a crush on, or they"re in a relationship that"s a relationship of trust and it"s consensual and it"s a positive experience. And we actually heard from teens, older teens in particular that there are plenty of stories where sexting happened, where it was in a relationship of trust and it was consensual and there are zero bad consequences.

And teens told us that they really need us to shift away from the message that is just don"t send a sex and amplify two other messages in its place. One is, do not ask someone for a sext because it is extremely hard to say no, especially if the request is coming from someone who you like and you want to feel close to. So tell teens, don"t ask for nudes. You put the other person in a really hard position. And then number two, if a picture is leaked, rather than doubling down on this message of that person should have known better, saying again and again to teens, it is never ever okay to forward on someone else"s nude picture or share it with people who are not the intended audience.

If for any reason you receive one you absolutely cannot, should not forward it on to others. And those were two messages that teen said, we really feel like there"s this void that we"re not hearing these two things that are actually really, really important. I think kind of going along with that, we heard, especially from middle school girls, a lot of stress about the pressure around being asked for nudes. And our impulse there as we really engaged with teen"s voices was that they really need strategies to help them turn down requests when they"re coming and to feel really confident and empowered around having the skills to navigate those inbound requests.

Emily Weinstein: Absolutely. We write in our work about the importance of consent as a frame, and how actually the language of consent has been really missing from a lot of conversations adults have with teens about sexting. And once we reintroduce it seems so obvious how some of the messages we were sending fall short and what else we might need to say.

And we don"t even think about what we"re modeling around this idea of getting people"s permission or making sure that what we put about people online is what they want there. So the realities are just really complicated. And then you layer onto this, that not only are teens in this sort of record everything, collect receipts culture where they"re documenting screenshoting, but we also have this reality that the technologies have made it such that content persists and really can get wrenched out of time and place and context and pulls toward completely new meanings in the future. And that is so hard. It"s hard even for my adult brain to really imagine how my every text message I send privately be screenshotted and then potentially uploaded in the future. And then what would someone think about that in 15 years from now? And then you layer onto that the reality that perspective taking skills and other parts of cognition are actually still developing for adolescents.

We"re asking them to kind of do this herculean task by imagining every possible audience of every possible digital message they send or every possible picture of them that"s taken. And Carrie and I just sat with so much discomfort as we were grappling with that in our own work and what the implications are for what we actually can and should say to teens. We certainly don"t think that adults should just stop saying to teens think about what you post. Of course, we think that is such an important message. We just saw the many ways it can fall short and the ways that it"s just not often enough for teens who are living in this really complex digital landscape.

Jill Anderson: It sounds like it"s a lot less about limiting taking screens away, banishing certain things from teens as it is more about having these conversations and developing strategies as a parent, as a caretaker, guardian, whatever, to level up in a way and be able to meet your teen where they"re at.

And so we actually need to expect and anticipate missteps. We need to acknowledge the reality that there are things that our kids are going to post that they"re not going to necessarily feel great about and we need to be there for them when they stumble with great empathy, with encouragement around a growth mindset. We can help teens sort of write their story even just for themselves about their missteps and why they happened, but importantly for others in the future who may find the digital evidence. So I think we just need to shift our mindset away from protecting our kids from the risks at all costs and acknowledging that they"re going to make mistakes and how can we coach them through this really difficult reality.

Emily Weinstein: Your question also just makes me think about something we heard from teens, which is that it"s really complicated to opt out of social media and it"s not without cost. And Carrie and I were just in a conversation with a couple of teens last week and they were talking about how this reality of FOMO is part of life when they opt out and when they opt in. Both said that they were late to the social media game for a variety of reasons. Like their friends were all using social media before them. And they said, "When my friends were on social media and I was having this FOMO experience, like I was left out all the time because there were inside jokes that were happening, there was communication, there were plans, there were logistics, there were sources of shared connection that I just wasn"t part of and it made me feel less close to my friends."

And then when I started using social media, you feel like this sense of FOMO because you see everything everyone"s doing and you"re not always part of it and you have to figure out how to navigate that. And then on top of that, we hear from teens that group chats are key to the FOMO landscape and the social dynamics. So even if you"re not on social media, you can still get wrapped up in some of the digital complexity of social life. Which is all to say that I think that so often and understandably we want to just know, "Oh, if I just keep my kid off social media until X age, I"ll be doing them a favor." And we came away with this sense that yeah, there are cases where that is true, that we are doing kids a big favor by helping them delay social media, but it can be really complicated and we have to pay attention to what is going on in their social circle and what the implications are.

One other thing here that"s kind of interesting is when kids are a little bit on the younger end of their teen years, it"s totally appropriate and in many cases expected for parents to be much more involved in their social media live. So maybe I"m actually doing Instagram with my 14 year old, and I"m seeing that that"s kind of our agreement. She"s going to start using social media and I have the password or she has access to it and we look at it together and we"re sort of co-constructing meaning. And then as teens get older, it"s less and less comfortable and appropriate to be involved in their social media experiences. And so if we have a 17 year old starting to use social media for the first time, they can end up in this position where they"re getting a lot less of that kind of coaching and intervention.

I"m not advocating that 14 year olds parents should be reading their Instagram messages or anything like that, or that we should be putting kids on social media younger. But I just think that some of these tensions are so important for us to at least grapple with and recognize that there aren"t really answers here.

Emily Weinstein: There"s one really important thing that we can all be doing and that is really thinking about what we"re modeling in our own tech habits. And I think about this a lot because I have a almost three year old and she is so aware of the moments when I am distracted by my phone. And I have really tried in doing this research, one study I got to work on really demonstrated and just quantified the impacts of what some researchers are calling techno fear. This is when parents are distracted, when people are distracted by their phones and they pull us from connections with each other.

And there"s really some indication that at all ages kids notice that. And it has negative impacts on the quality of our parent child relationships. And so, one of the things that we can start doing is just taking stock, taking note of our own tech habits, what we"re modeling, and then naming aloud the struggle that we feel and the strategies we"re using. So in my case, even with a three year old that might look like saying, Oh sorry, I am feeling really distracted by my phone right now. I am going to go put it in the other room so that I can focus on the game we"re playing together. And just recognizing that modeling that physical separation, modeling that it"s okay to feel this pull and that there are things we can do because we really want to prioritize the relationship. That"s a really powerful and simple intervention.

Carrie James: There are other aspects of modeling too, in terms of our digital lives and those have to do more with social media. And so we can model for our kids the kinds of real sort red flag moments. We can look at our own phones and say, Wow, I see something sort of troubling here and name that out loud. Or I"m noticing that everyone on my social media feed looks like they"re living their best life. That can"t really be true, can it? So really modeling that sort of pause point to wonder what"s going on on the one hand. And on the other hand, to really notice that social media can be a highlight reel and really invite that critical lens. And we can do that from even when our kids pre-social media, because there"s so much content that they"re looking at. If they have an iPad or YouTube, they see stuff online even if they don"t have their own social media accounts. So that modeling in a variety of different ways can start early.

Jill Anderson: Carrie James and Emily Weinstein are principal investigators at Harvard"s Project Zero. They are the authors of the recent book, Behind Their Screens, What Teens are Facing (and Adults Are Missing). I"m Jill Anderson. This is the Harvard EdCast produced by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Thanks for listening.

Next came the SCR-300 radio transceiver, developed for the U.S. Military by Motorola. This time a portable FM radio, it weighed anywhere from 32 to 38 pounds with a 3-mile range.

Bell System introduced the first commercial mobile telephone service, called the Mobile Telephone System (MTS). The original equipment was large, weighing 80 pounds (not quite what you"d call mobile) with limited calling bands available from AT&T.

The service wasn"t cheap either—costing $30 a month (roughly $330 today) with additional per call charges. Not really intended for regular Joe Blows, these devices were used by utilities, truck fleet operators, and reporters.

Ericsson"s Mobile System A (MTA) was the first partly automatic mobile system for automobiles. First used by Sweden, the unit weighed a whopping 88 pounds. Again, "mobile" is kind of a misnomer, considering it"s equivalent to almost 300 iPhones!

With the adaption of Bell"s newer pre-cellular Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS), auto owners saw lighter, more advanced mobile car phones with push buttons. This one by Motorola weighed 40 pounds, half as much of the original units from the "40s.

Over the years, they managed to get down into the 20-pound range. But they never managed to get into the hands of Joe Blow, with a still-hefty price and rationed service throughout the nation.

With a prototype of the DynaTAC (DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) portable phone, former Motorola Vice President Martin Cooper made the first private, practical mobile phone call in a non-vehicle setting. Who"d he call? His rival at Bell Labs, Joel S. Engel.

10 years later after the prototype, Motorola"s DynaTAC cellular phone was made available to the public, weighing under 2 pounds, but costing nearly $4,000 (almost $9,000 today)—which is why it was strictly for the Gordon Gekkos of the world. It worked on AMPS, North America"s first 1G analog service, launched first by Ameritech in Chicago.

Back to larger mobile devices, the Mobira Talkman brought longer talk time at cheaper costs. The DynaTAC could only manage 60 minutes of talk time, but this miniature beast gave hours or voice-to-voice communication.

It included a calendar, address book, clock, calculator, notepad, email, gamers and a touchscreen with QWERTY keyboard. It originally sold for $899, which would be just over $1,300 nowadays.

Car phones remained popular, despite their smaller pocket-sized versions, but Motorola"s Bag Phone (2900) was the car phone to have due to its long talk time, great battery life and superior signal range.

Still shrinking the line of TACs, Motorola unveiled the first clamshell mobile phone with StarTAC. It improved the folding feature by collapsing in half, which is why it"s called "clamshell"—because it resembles a clam opening and closing shut. It ran on 1G networks, but eventually crossed over into the world of 2G.

The Simon was good, but the Nokia 9000 Communicator was what really brought on the smartphone era. It was the first cell phone that could also be called a mini-computer (though it had limited web access).

The Nokia 8810 was the first cell phone without an external antenna whip or stub-antenna, possibly paving the way for iPhones and DROIDs. It also made mobile phones more aesthetically pleasing, with its sliding keypad cover.

One of the most popular mobile phones in history was the Nokia 3210, with over 160 million sold. It was one of the first to allow picture messages, but only preinstalled ones like "Happy Birthda,y" and was one of the first to be marketing toward young people.

Nokia"s 7110 was the first cell phone to incorporate Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), which gave mobile users web access for simple devices—a stripped-down, mostly text version, but a revolutionary step for mobile internet.

Some like to give credit to Olympus for being the first camera to transmit digital images over a cellular network with their Deltis VC-1100. Others prefer Philippe Kahn"s story of rigging up a camera to a cell phone with wires to send images of his newborn baby.

But the J-SH04 was the first commercially available cell phone to have an integrated CCD sensor, with the Sha-Mail (Picture-Mail) infrastructure. This was the start of what we know as MMS.

One of the first phones to equip a fully functional web experience and integrate an instant messaging client (AIM) was the Danger Hiptop in 2002, later re-branded the T-Mobile Sidekick.

Its messaging features and keyboard made it one of the best selling phones in the deaf community. Also new was an LCD screen that rotated and flipped to reveal a large QWERTY keyboard.

Perhaps surpassing the BlackBerry achievements, Microsoft"s Pocket PC Phone Edition started spreading across PDAs like wildfire, including the HP Jornada 928 Wireless Digital Assistant, combining the best of the PDA with integrated wireless voice and data capabilities.

It helped give cell phones a new look, which were getting stale with the same ol" boring designs. Though nothing revolutionary, its looks did more than impress.

Believe it or not, the iPhone wasn"t the first cell phone to have Apple"s iTunes music player integrated. It was the Motorola ROKR E1, but it only could manage 100 songs at a time—not quite the same as an iPhone...

The first smartphone to run Google"s Android OS was the HTC Dream slider smartphone. It featured a QWERTY keyboard, full HTML web browser, Gmail, YouTube and more, and paved the way for phones like the Nexus One and Motorola DROID.

The HTC EVO 4G from Sprint was the first cellular phone to meet 4G standards, running on the WiMAX network. It was sold powered by Android 2.1 and had one of the largest touchscreen displays, an 8MP camera, HD video capture, HDMI output, Mobile Hotspot capability and HTC Sense.

Broken phone screen repair in Birmingham – Most of us, at some stage, have dropped our mobile phones. Sometimes, they’ll fall ‘just right’ and receive minimal or zero damage. Often, they’ll land sickeningly face-down and, when picked up and turned over, present the owner with a once silky-smooth piece of glass that now resembles a shattered mirror.

Modern smartphones are becoming increasingly large and made from materials which, although look fantastic, are rather slippy. So, if you’ve cracked your screen, don’t worry – you’re not alone. What’s more, we’re experts at fixing such devices and taking them back to showroom quality.

Our team of phone screen fixers know the iPhone screen repair process like the back of their hands, but are equally at home replacing cracked screens on phones from Samsung, HTC and LG.

Because we hold a rolling stock of replacement mobile screens, we can undertake a cracked screen repair within hours of the device entering our store, if not quicker.

Modern smartphone screens break in a variety of ways, but there are typically two types of broken phone screen repair Birmingham residents require most often, in our experience:

If you’re in need of a broken phone screen repair, Birmingham has just as many options as other cities. You could even send your broken device back to the manufacturer, but in doing so, you’re likely to be without your smartphone for an extended period and be presented with a hefty bill at the end.

So, why us? We treat your device like our own and operate on a strict no-fix, no-fee basis. You’re in safe hands and we know how important your phone is to you, which is why we’ll get it back to you as quickly as possible with our walk-in cracked screen repair service.

This comes in addition to the best features of the S22 Ultra, the 6.8″ display with 1088 x 1440 resolution, up to 12G of RAM, 1 Terabyte of storage and a 5,000 mAh battery. The camera array also includes a 12MP ultrawide lens, 10MP telephoto lens and periscope telephoto lens, and can shoot footage in 8K – the best resolution available from a smartphone. However, the 12MP selfie lens is a downgrade on the S22 Ultra’s 40MP selfie lens.

The "p-display" nomenclature used in this article refers to the number of pixels displayed across the width of a given phone"s screen. Earlier phones with lower than 720p (lower than HD ready resolution) are not included in this listing. The lists below are dynamic lists and may be sorted into alphabetical order by clicking on the "sort icons" at the top of the first column.

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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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The iPhone 14 Pro models have improved battery life and new cameras. They also have brand new features: an always-on display and the Dynamic Island –an interactive new display area that sits around the selfie camera.

The 14 Pro Max is similar in size to last year"s iPhone 13 Pro Max. But its large 6.7-inch screen is brighter than ever, which makes it great for gaming and watching TV shows and movies, even if you"re outside.

Dynamic Island is the coolest new feature Apple introduced this year. Instead of that blank notch that used to house the selfie camera and microphone, there"s a new interactive pill display that has the ability to shape-shift.

Dynamic Island blurs the lines between hardware and software, since the front-facing camera is still underneath. Instead of cutting into your viewing experience like the notch on previous iPhones, it becomes part of what you"re already doing when using the iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max.

There"s also a new always-on display. This allows you to glance over at your lock screen on your phone while it"s sitting on your desk and see dim but useful information. That"s something Samsung,

It"s neat, but I turned it off because I try not to look at my phone all the time, especially when someone is talking to me. This is a personal preference, and I understand why some people may find it useful. If you put your iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max face down on a table, or in your pocket, the always-on display is deactivated.

The only time I really liked using the always-on display was when I was watching "House of the Dragon" on HBO Max and needed to access my Apple TV remote. Instead of having to open the Apple Remote every time I needed to pause, the always-on display meant the remote stayed on my iPhone screen. It was as if the actual remote, which I always seem to lose, was right next to me.

Apple also unveiled an action mode that allows you to shoot smooth videos. I often use a gimbal to capture video, but action mode has eliminated that need by stabilizing the picture for me. It means you should be able to run around filming your kids without the video looking bumpy.

Apple debuted new safety features such as car crash detection and satellite connectivity. I wasn"t able to test out car crash detection, for obvious reasons. Satellite connectivity sounds promising – it will allow you to connect to emergency services when you don"t have WiFi or cell service – but Apple won"t release the feature until November.

The 14 Pro Max is a bit bulkier and heavier than the iPhone 13 Pro Max. If you don"t often have pockets and prefer not to carry around such a large screen, you may want to opt for the 14 Pro which has a smaller display than the Pro Max.

The iPhone 14 Pro, which starts at $999, is effectively the same phone as the iPhone 14 Pro Max, with slightly less battery life and a smaller 6.1-inch screen. You still get the great display, and the cameras are the same.

There"s one more member of the lineup this year. The iPhone 14 Plus has the same features as the regular iPhone 14, but the screen size of the Pro Max, and starts at $899. It seems compelling for people who want a bigger screen without shelling out the $1,099, but it won"t be released until Oct. 7, so I haven"t had the chance to review it yet.

I wouldn"t upgrade from the iPhone 13 to the regular iPhone 14 since there aren"t a ton of big changes, outside of crash detection, improved cameras and satellite SOS. You won"t notice a big difference. Still, the iPhone 14 Plus might be a compelling option if you want a bigger display without shelling out for the Pro Max. Just know it doesn"t have Apple"s two most innovative new features: Dynamic Island and the always-on display.