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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
First cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper. It was a product that had never been built before, yet it took him and his team only 90 days to accomplish. The original product weighed 2.5 lbs., and measured 10 in. long. -
Improved DynaTAC 8000X
After four iterations, Cooper and his team were able to reduce the phone to half of it's usual weight. However, the phones were still very heavy, resulting in it being difficult to hold them for long periods of time. -
Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
The MicroTAC was released in 1989 and was the smallest and lightest cell phone on the market at the time. It was released as "MicroTAC Pocket Cellular Telephone." It was designed to be small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. This phone was able to display more information than the DynaTAC, due to its black housing and red 8 character dot matrix LED display. -
Apple releases first iPhone
When the first iPhone was released, thousands of people waited outside of the Apple Store and AT&T Stores to get a phone. Off-Duty police officers were hired to guard the stores overnight to prevent theft. After its release, Apple was on its way to surpassing Nokia in the mobile phone market. The phone featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity, along with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer. -
Release of the iPhone 5s
The iPhone 5s is powered by the Apple A7 system-on-chip, the first 64-bit processor to be used on a smartphone. This is accompanied by a new M7 "motion co-processor," which is dedicated to processing motion data from the iPhone's accelerometer and gyroscopes without requiring the main processor. This generation of iPhone was also the first to have a fingerprint sensor.
