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
Mobile phone recycling The reasoning behind this is that reusing leads to a decreased amount of resources being extracted from the environment, therefore minimizing the impact. Some predict revenues for the US mobile phone recycling industry will see a notable increase until at least 2019, due to an upturn in mobile phone ownership a thus a larger base of phones available for recycling.. Approximately 150 million mobile phones are discarded each year in the USA. Up to 35 000 pounds of copper and 772 pounds of silver can be recovered per 1 million devices recycled. A 'marginal' amount of gold and palladium has