Mobile Phone

By faithscomm

  • the SCR-194 and 195 the first portable AM radios

    the SCR-194 and 195 the first portable AM radios
    Perhaps not considered a mobile phone but still provided portable communication. Perhaps the first 'walkie talkie,' as these devices weighed roughly 25 pounds and had a 5-mile range. They were widely used for infantry battalion and company intercommunication during World War II.

  • SCR-300

    SCR-300
    The SCR-300 radio transceiver, developed for the U.S. Military by Motorola.

  • first Walkie Talkie

    first Walkie Talkie
    Motorola produced the first 'handie talkie' for the U.S., labelled SCR-536 and mass produced and used during the war.

  • Mobile Telephone System (MTS)

    Mobile Telephone System (MTS)
    the first commercial mobile telephone service, called the Mobile Telephone System (MTS).

  • Mobile System A

    Mobile System A
    The partly automatic mobile system for automobiles.

  • Improved Mobile Telephone Service

    Improved Mobile Telephone Service
    Pre-cellular Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS), auto owners saw lighter, more advanced mobile car phones with push buttons.

  • First hand-held mobile telephone

    First hand-held mobile telephone
    Former Motorola Vice President Martin Cooper made the first public call using a cellular telephone

  • Nokia's Mobira Senator

    Nokia's Mobira Senator
    It launched during the world's first fully automatic international cellular service--NMT--the first-generation (1G) of mobile communications.

  • Motorola's DynaTAC cellular phone

    Motorola's DynaTAC cellular phone
    made available to the public. It worked on AMPS, North America's first 1G analogue service, launched first by Ameritech in Chicago.

  • the Mobira Talkman

    the Mobira Talkman
    Provided hours of voice-to-voice communication.

  • Motorola's MicroTAC

    Motorola's MicroTAC
    Motorola's MicroTAC, which introduced the first flip phone design. World first ever pocket phone

  • IBM Simon

    IBM Simon
    world's first smartphone, IBM Simon was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA, all rolled into one.

  • StarTAC

    StarTAC
    It improved the folding feature by collapsing in half.

  • Nokia 8810

    Nokia 8810
    The Nokia 8810 was the first cell phone without an external antenna whip or stub-antenna, possibly paving the way for iPhones and DROIDs.

  • Nokia 3210

    Nokia 3210
    One of the first to allow picture messages

  • Sanyo 5300

    Sanyo 5300
    the Sanyo 5300 from Sprint was the first camera phone sold in North America.

  • Motorola RAZR

    Motorola RAZR
    The next highly popular device was a camera phone called the Motorola RAZR

  • The original iPhone

    The original iPhone
    Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone, a revolutionary touchscreen smartphone.
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    iPhone 3, 4, 5, 5s, 6, 7, 8, X

    The continuous progression of the iPhone