Mobile phone features (2.0), dual line support, infrared, Bluetooth (2.0) and WiFi connectivity, NFC, instant messaging, Internet e-mail and browsing and serving as a wireless modem. The first smartphone was the Nokia 9000 Communicator in 1996 which added PDA functionality to the basic mobile phone at the time. As miniaturization and increased processing power of microchips has enabled ever more features to be added to phones, the concept of the smartphone has evolved, and what was a high-end smartphone five years ago, is a standard phone today. Several phone series have been introduced to address a given market segment, such as the RIM
Japanese mobile phone culture a leader in mobile phone technology. The first camera phone J-Phone (Stylized as 写メール, which stands for Photo-Mail) was released in November 2000, and not only included a camera but also the function to send photographs via messaging or E-mail, which made the phone extremely popular at the time. Technologies like 3G Mobile Broadband were common in Japan before any other country. Some of the main features of a mobile in Japan include: In recent years, some cellular phones have been updated to be used as debit or credit cards and can be swiped through most tills to buy products