History of cellular phones

  • Motorola DynaTAC 8000x

    Motorola DynaTAC 8000x
    Dr. Martin Cooper made the first phone call over a cellular network in 1973, but it took an entire decade before the DynaTAC 8000x was sold as the first commercial handheld cellular phone in 1983. It weighed 1.75 lb., stood 13 in. high, stored 30 numbers, took 10 hours to recharge and cost $3,995.
  • Motorola MicroTAC 9800X

    Motorola MicroTAC 9800X
    The first truly portable phone. Up until its release, most cellular phones were installed as car phones due to the inability to fit them into a jacket pocket.
  • Motorola International 3200

    Motorola International 3200
    The first digital hand-size mobile telephone.
  • Nokia 1011

    Nokia 1011
    This was the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was produced until 1994.
  • BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator

    BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator
    The IBM Simon was the first PDA/Phone combo.
  • Motorola StarTAC

    Motorola StarTAC
    The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.
  • Nokia 8110

    Nokia 8110
    Alternately called the “banana phone”, this phone was popularized in the first Matrix movie.
  • Nokia 9000 Communicator

    Nokia 9000 Communicator
    The first smartphone series, driven by an Intel 386 CPU.
  • Nokia 9110i

    Nokia 9110i
    This iteration of Nokia’s Communicator series significantly reduced the weight of this precursor to the smartphone.
  • Nokia 5110

    Nokia 5110
    This cell phone was the most popular consumer model at the time of its release and for some time afterwards.
  • Nokia 8210

    Nokia 8210
    This phone was loved for its customizable design, but hated for its screen fade.
  • Ericsson R380

    Ericsson R380
    The R380 featured a black and white touchscreen, partially covered by a flip.
  • Nokia 3310

    Nokia 3310
    This popular phone sold 126 million models, and was particularly popular in Europe.
  • Nokia 3510(i)

    Nokia 3510(i)
    The first Nokia phone to bring GPRS internet services to the mass market. The 3510i, pictured here, was a more advanced version with a colour screen.
  • Nokia N-Gage

    Nokia N-Gage
    Nokia’s answer to the Game Boy advance, this phone/games system had a couple of award winning titles before it succumbed to its clunky interface design.
  • Motorola Razor V3

    Motorola Razor V3
    When this was introduced it set the standard for sleek design in the industry.
  • Nokia 7610

    Nokia 7610
    Nokia’s first smartphone with a 1 megapixel camera.
  • Nokia 6680

    Nokia 6680
    One of the first 3G phones, the Nokia 6680 was considered to be high end at the time of its release.
  • Iphone

    Iphone
    The original iPhone was released in June 2007 with an auto-rotate sensor, a multi-touch sensor that allowed multiple inputs while ignoring minor touches, a touch interface that replaced the traditional QWERTY keyboards, and many other features that helped to give Apple an almost instant healthy market share on its release.
  • Nokia N95

    Nokia N95
    Nokia’s popular smartphone features a slider to access multimedia buttons and a numeric keypad.
  • iPhone 3G

    iPhone 3G
    The iPhone 3G was made even more desirable by all the apps that could be purchased for it in the AppStore when it was released in July of 2008.
  • Iphone 4

    Iphone 4
  • Iphone 4

    Iphone 4
  • Nokia Lumia 520

    Nokia Lumia 520