Mobility

Quiz: Can you name this vintage mobile hardware?

By · June 23, 2016, 7:37 PM PST

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  • 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 ...

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  • the classic Motorola StarTAC flip released in 1996.

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  • Which version of the Kindle is this?

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  • The original Kindle from 2007

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  • This is ...

    Image: Nokia

  • the Verizon Juke circa 2007.

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  • This is ...

    Image: Motorola

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

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  • 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.

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  • Bono is toying around with a ...

    26 Oct 2004, San Jose, California, USA --- U2 band member Bono, left, holds a white iPod and a U2 Special Edition iPod as part of a partnership between Apple, U2 and Universal Music Group (UMG) as Apple CEO Steve Jobs looks on during a press conference in San Jose, California. The new special Edition U2 iPod which can hold up to 5,000 songs, and features a black enclosure with a red click wheel and custom engraving of U2 band member signatures. --- Image by © Kim Kulish/Corbis

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  • U2 Special Edition iPod released in 2004.

    26 Oct 2004, San Jose, California, USA --- The cover of the iPod U2 Special Edition, part of a partnership between Apple, U2 and Universal Music Group (UMG) is introduced during a press conference in San Jose The new special Edition U2 iPod which can hold up to 5,000 songs, and features a black enclosure with a red click wheel and custom engraving of U2 band member signatures. --- Image by © Kim Kulish/Corbis

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  • Who makes this mobile device?

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  • Starfleet, silly

    Image: CBS

  • This is ...

    Image: Nokia

  • the Nokia E90 Communicator.

    Its heyday was around 2007.

    Image: Nokia

  • This is ...

    11 Jan 2005, San Francisco, California, USA --- Steve Jobs (L), CEO of Apple Computer Inc., and Grammy winner singer John Mayer both wear the new iPod Shuffle digital music player at the Macworld Conference and Expo. --- Image by © Kimberly White/Corbis

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  • the iPod shuffle circa 2005.

    Image: Apple

  • 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

  • Which edition of iPod is this?

    11 Mar 2004, Los Angeles, California, USA --- The iPod has a 40GB hard drive, and can hold up to 10,000 songs while weighing only 6.2 ounces. The backlit LCD screen, scroll wheel and illuminated buttons make finding music easy, and with the iPod dock songs can be downloaded in minutes. --- Image by © Marianna Day Massey/ZUMA/Corbis

    Image: Marianna Day Massey/ZUMA/Corbis

  • Generation 3 circa 2003.

    16 Oct 2003, San Francisco, California, USA --- An iPod on display at the Apple iTunes for Windows launch event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. --- Image by © Kim Kulish/Corbis

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  • This is ...

    Image: John Whalen for TechRepublic

  • 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 ...

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  • the LG C1300 flip phone circa 2007.

    Image: Arthur Tamayo/TechRepublic

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

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By 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...

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