Motorola International 3200
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The Motorola International 3200 was the first digital hand-size mobile telephone introduced in 1992, along with the more compact 5200, 7200 and 7500 "flip phones" introduced in 1994. But first was International 1000, what is first GSM portable phone.
The unit of 3200 was designed to supplant phones using the original analog cell technology developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s and first commercially available in 1983. Because of the 3200's advanced GSM technology, existing units will still operate on any current 900MHz GSM networks operating to this day.
Like other mobile phones that preceded it, the 3200's shape (and size) resembled an elongated brick, with the numeric buttons on the narrow side, along with the earphone and microphone. In Germany it was called "knochen" - due to the shape of bone. Designed to work solely in the GSM 900 MHz band, the flexible "rubber duck" antenna was two-thirds as long as the case. The phone contained 21 buttons — the standard number pad, plus nine others
- MR (Recall)
- a/c (Alpha/Clear)
- Call (Send)
- M+ (Store)
- Fcn (Function)
- End (End)
- Pwr (Power)
- Menu (Menu/SMS)
- Vol (Volume)
It was severely limited in what information it could show due to the small dot matrix LCD. The handset couldn't receive either send SMS messages. But you can see that Motorola company fitted up the 3200 keypad to 3300, because the 3200 has a message sign on the Menu button. International 3300 was the better version what could receive SMS.
In co-production with Bosch this company introduced also "Bosch Cartel S" phone. It was an identical copy of Motorola 3200, but with some cosmetic changes - white buttons, Bosch battery and no Motorola sign on aerial.
Motorola also manufactured other models of mobile telephones in the same "brick" style as the International 3200, such as the Motorola Ultra Classic, the DynaTAC 8000x/8500x/8800x & the "California" phone.
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