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Perhaps not considered a mobile phone but still provided portable communication. Perhaps the first 'walkie talkie,' as these devices weighed roughly 25 pounds and had a 5-mile range. They were widely used for infantry battalion and company intercommunication during World War II.
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The SCR-300 radio transceiver, developed for the U.S. Military by Motorola.
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Motorola produced the first 'handie talkie' for the U.S., labelled SCR-536 and mass produced and used during the war.
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the first commercial mobile telephone service, called the Mobile Telephone System (MTS).
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The partly automatic mobile system for automobiles.
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Pre-cellular Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS), auto owners saw lighter, more advanced mobile car phones with push buttons.
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Former Motorola Vice President Martin Cooper made the first public call using a cellular telephone
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It launched during the world's first fully automatic international cellular service--NMT--the first-generation (1G) of mobile communications.
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made available to the public. It worked on AMPS, North America's first 1G analogue service, launched first by Ameritech in Chicago.
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Provided hours of voice-to-voice communication.
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Motorola's MicroTAC, which introduced the first flip phone design. World first ever pocket phone
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world's first smartphone, IBM Simon was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine and PDA, all rolled into one.
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It improved the folding feature by collapsing in half.
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The Nokia 8810 was the first cell phone without an external antenna whip or stub-antenna, possibly paving the way for iPhones and DROIDs.
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One of the first to allow picture messages
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the Sanyo 5300 from Sprint was the first camera phone sold in North America.
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The next highly popular device was a camera phone called the Motorola RAZR
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Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone, a revolutionary touchscreen smartphone.
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The continuous progression of the iPhone
