Handheld history

Bell Labs offers mobile telephone services on vehicles

Jun 17, 1946

History of Mobile Phones

AT&T launches Mobile Telephone Service

1949

5,000 customers placed approximately 30,000 calls each week at $15 per month plus an additional $0.30 to $0.40 per local call in 1946.

First Cell Phone Call Made

1973

The call was made by Motorola researcher and executive Martin Cooper to Dr. Joel Engel of Bell Labs.

1G was first deployed in Tokyo in 1979

1979

Quickly spread to other countries. AT&T launches 1G March 6, 1983. Network was unsafe due to 0 encryptions and was susceptible to eavesdropping.

First Cell Phone Launched

1983

Motorola DynaTAC 800x $4000

First SMS Text Message Sent

1993

Sent in Finland on 2G network.

First Smart Phone Released to Public

Aug 16, 1994

IBM Simon featured a calendar, address book, clock, notepad, PDA, email service, QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, stylus, and predictive typing.

Nokia 6110

1997

Motorola StarTAC

1997

BlackBerry 850

1999

Samsung SGH-T100

2000

3G Launches

2001

First launched in Tokyo

BlackBerry 5810

2003

Motorola Razr V3

2004

BlackBerry 7270

2005

Apple iPhone 3G

2008

Galaxy Nexus

2011