Cell Phone History

By cowanaudria

  • 1960's

    1960's
    Amos Edward Joel discovered and developed what he termed as the handoff system. The cell areas for the cell phone users weren’t restricted anymore; the user could freely roam across cell areas without disruption in their calls.

  • 1973

    1973
    Dr. Cooper set up a base station in New York with the first working prototype of a cellular telephone.

  • 1973

    1973
    Cell phone invented in 1973 by Dr Martin Cooper.

  • 1974

    1974
    SRA releases a mobile telephone whose weight was 3 kilograms.

  • 1977

    1977
    Cell phones go public.

  • 1982

    1982
    Motorola was the first company to introduce the first portable cell phone called Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.

  • 1984

    1984
    -Nokia, from Finland, launches the first portable car-telephone called the Nokia Talkman.

  • 1988

    1988
    The Cellular Technology Industry Association (CTIA) was developed.

  • 1990's

    The technology on which the cell phones worked was called 2G or second generation.The 2G cell phones were smaller, around 100 to 200 grams. These were hand-held and were portable.

  • 2013

    2013
    Number of mobile subscribers in the world crosses 2.5 billion.