The evolution of cell phones

By Marcelo Contreras

  • Martin Cooper invited the first cell phone.

    Martin Cooper invited the first cell phone.
    On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone.

  • First cell phone call

    First cell phone call
    On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper,made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival.

  • The first brick phone sold

    The first brick phone sold
    "The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market.

  • First flip phone

    First flip phone
    It was released on January 3, 1996, being the first ever flip mobile phone.

  • Candy meets phone?

    Candy meets phone?
    A bar (also known as a slab, block, candybar) phone takes the shape of a cuboid, usually with rounded corners and/or edges. The name is derived from the rough resemblance to a chocolate bar in size and shape.

  • The first smart phone

    The first smart phone
    The first Symbian phone, the touchscreen Ericsson R380 Smartphone, was released in 2000, and was the first device marketed as a "smartphone". It combined a PDA with a mobile phone.

  • Our phones today

    Our phones today
    Modern cell phones are capable of much more than just sending and receiving phone calls. Mobile phones used in today's world allow users to send and receive text messages, emails, photos and video as well as access the Internet, play games, listen to music, use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and more.