Cell Phone Evolution

By 000913224

  • The Invention of Cell Phones

    The Invention of Cell Phones
    Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, created the first mobile phone. The phone was large, heavy, and took up to 10 hours to charge.

  • First Commercial Mobile Phone

    First Commercial Mobile Phone
    Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the Motorola Dyna TAC 8000X. You could talk on this phone up to 30 minutes. It also cost $3,995.

  • The Handheld Mobile Phone

    The Handheld Mobile Phone
    Nokia launched the first 'handheld' mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman 900.

  • Design Changes For The Mobile Phone

    Design Changes For The Mobile Phone
    1990 to 1995 represented an upward swerve in design and portability. Mobile devices were gradually starting to appear in the hands of average consumers for the first time.

  • The Flip Phone

    The Flip Phone
    The design of the mobile phones continue to change and become more popular among all consumers, especially teenagers and young adults. The flip phone design was light and easy to carry. It was also the first phone to ever use a thin film transistor active matrix LCD display

  • Smartphones

    Smartphones
    A true smartphone, one that ran on Symbian, packed in a 332MHz Texas Instruments CPU, and featured 160MB of RAM was introduced. It also featured a decent 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

  • The iPhone

    The iPhone
    The release of the Apple iPhone changed the face of the mobile phone forever. Apple's iPhone popularized applications with millions of consumers, helped make touchscreen interfaces norm, and broke new ground for overall design and finish.