Spectronic
Swedish electronics company
Spectronic is a research and development company in Helsingborg, Sweden. Through its subsidiary, Spectronic Medical, the company is engaged in development of automated image analysis solutions for healthcare and medical industry. A flagship product is the technology for enabling fully MRI-based radiation treatment planning for tumor therapy.
Previously, Spectronic have developed and manufactured a series of advanced mobile telephones, and was one of the leading pioneers during the early days of modern mobile telephony.
Multimedia telephones
Previous products include the Spectronic TS2000 Multimedia smartphone, which was initially released in the year 1999. This was the first mobile phone ever with a built-in digital camera. The TS2000 model was succeeded by the slightly upgraded TS2200 model in the year 2001, which was manufactured until the year 2004.
The Spectronic Multimedia smartphones had an input interface called Sidetouch, with which the user could control the entire phone only by touching on its sides. Other features of the phones included emailing, SMS, MMS, fax and a web browser.
NMT phones
Prior to the Multimedia telephones, Spectronic manufactured a series of handheld phones for the analog NMT mobile network.
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