The Motorola Timeport is a former series of executive candybar and flip

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s as well as

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manufactured by

Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...

. The series was introduced in 1999 and marketed until about 2003. Product models include: (incomplete list) *P1088 (canceled) *L7089 (1999) *P7389 (2000) *P8767 (2000) *P8088 (refresh of StarTAC 160/X) *250 (2001) *270c (2001) *280 (2001) (P280, known as T280 in Europe) *260 (2002)

Timeport P1088 (canceled smartphone)

The Motorola Multiple Application Phone (MAP) was a device built by Motorola. Named Timeport P1088, the device was developed around 1997 and after but was never released to market. It was presented numerous times at

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fairs. The P1088 was an early example of a

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Timeport L7089

Motorola Timeport L7089 released in 1999 was claimed by Motorola to be the world's first

tri-band In telecommunications, a multi-band device (including (2) dual-band, (3) tri-band, (4) quad-band and (5) penta-band devices) is a communication device (especially a mobile phone) that supports multiple radio frequency bands. All devices which ha ...

(900/1800/1900 bands)

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

phone, meaning that it could be used over the world.

Timeport P8767 – The first mobile phone with OLED display.

Motorola-Timeport-P8767-OLED-OEL-display

Motorola Timeport P8767, introduced in September 2000 and released in December 2000, includes the Organic

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phone display, developed by Tohoku

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, using Pioneer OEL technology (PM-

OLED An organic light-emitting diode (OLED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a type of light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is an organic compound film that emits light in respon ...

display in today's terminology). The display is not full color, but area color (green, blue and red in own areas).

Timeport 280

The Motorola Timeport 280 (P280, or T280 in Europe) was introduced in 2001 and was one of the first handsets in the US with

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's Global System for Mobile Communications, global system for mobile communications (GSM). Networks and mobile devices wit ...

technology. It is tri-band GSM and also has

IrDA IrDA is a wireless standard designed for exchanging data using infrared (IR). Infrared ports for this purpose have been implemented in portable electronic devices such as mobile telephones, laptops, cameras, printers, and medical devices. The mai ...

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, and WAP.

Use in Mercedes-Benz vehicles

The

flip phone Clamshell design is a form factor commonly used in the design of electronic devices and other manufactured objects. It is inspired by the morphology of the clam. The form factor has been applied to handheld game consoles, mobile phones (where ...

version of the Timeport was included with select late 1990s and early 2000s

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vehicles. The phone integrated with the vehicle's COMAND infotainment system, as well as its

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system. In these vehicles, the phone's

logo was replaced with the

"Star" logo on the outside of the flip, but retained the

and "Timeport" branding on the inside of the flip, as well as the

logo appearing on the phone's monochrome display screen when it was first powered on.

References

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