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Quiz: Can you name this vintage mobile hardware?

  • Test your mobile tech knowledge

    We know, we know … mobile tech really is all about cellular communication, but in this quiz, we threw in a few mobile devices that didn’t have a cellular component.

    This device is …

    Image: Drew McBee\/TechRepublic

  • the classic Motorola StarTAC flip released in 1996.

    Image: Drew McBee\/TechRepublic

  • Which version of the Kindle is this?

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  • The original Kindle from 2007

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  • the Verizon Juke circa 2007.

    Image: Mark Kaelin\/TechRepublic

  • the Motorola Razr V3i Dolce & Gabbana edition from 2005.

    Image: Motorola

  • IBM's Simon was ...

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  • ... a big deal.

    The IBM Simon was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one device. The year: 1994.

    Image: IBM

  • Bono is toying around with a ...

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  • U2 Special Edition iPod released in 2004.

    Image: Corbis
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    Who makes this mobile device?

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  • Starfleet, silly

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    the Nokia E90 Communicator.

    Its heyday was around 2007.

    Image: Nokia
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    the iPod shuffle circa 2005.

    Image: Apple
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    This is ...

    Image: Reprinted with permission from Oldcomputers.net

  • a Tandy pocket computer ...

    … as is this device. More than mere calculators, these pocket PCs from the 1980s also understood a form of the BASIC programming language.

    Image: Keith Tyler\/Public Domain
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    Which edition of iPod is this?

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    Generation 3 circa 2003.

    Image: Corbis

  • a Motorola "brick" phone.

    It’s also known as the DynaTAC, with a Cellular One-branded logo. It appeared circa 1989.

    Image: John Whalen for TechRepublic

  • These are the innards of ...

    Image: Arthur Tamayo\/TechRepublic

  • the LG C1300 flip phone circa 2007.

    Image: Arthur Tamayo\/TechRepublic
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Leslie Gornstein

Leslie Gornstein is a senior editor with CBS Interactive. For the past two decades, she's covered consumer and B-to-B tech; biotech; entertainment and various other subjects that seemed interesting at the time. She's the author of The A-List Playbook (Skyhorse) and she lives in Los Angeles.