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The phone Martin Cooper designed for Motorola weighed 2.5 pounds and had a battery life of 20 minutes.
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The Motorola DynaTAC was used by Gordon Gecko in the 1987 film Wall Street and was nicknamed 'The Brick,' for obvious reasons. Given its huge price tag (roughly $9,400 in 2013 money), it is not surprising that only Gecko could afford it, being a Wall Street Master of the Universe.
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The lunchbox-sized Mokia Mobira Talkman might have been a nightmare to carry around, but it had longer battery life then the sturdy 'Brick.'
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The first flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC, which can be seen in Clueless, was becoming commonplace in the mid-'90s. Finally phones were approaching a reasonable size.
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The 'banana' phone, the Nokia 8110, was also Neo's phone, The Matrix (1999), and was the first example of the sliding form factor.
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On the Mokia 5110 there were endless game playing of the game Snake. A generation was introduced to cellphones and texting with this little creation.
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The Motorola Razr was best known for being ultra-thin and for having a seven-hour battery life.
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Then came the game changer - the Apple iPhone reshaped the mobile phone industry.
