The Evolution Of the Cell Phone
The first modern cell phones in the US first appeared in the USA in Chicago. It was the put out by Ameritech in 1983 using the famous first hand-held mobile phone Motorola DynaTAC.
The DynaTAC was the first commercially available cellular phone small enough to be easily carried, and made the first phone call from it. The DynaTAC’s retail price, $3,995 ($8724 in present-day terms). It was huge compared to today’s cells and weighed on at a whopping 28oz or approximately 2 pounds and was over 10 inches in height.
The DynaTAC has become associated with the 1980s in popular culture, and has been heavily used in film and media set in that period.The phone is well known for being used by Gordon Gekko in movie Wall Street.
Of course as technology advanced, components shrank and prices dropped, the era of mobile “on the fly” communications came into the day to day vernacular.
Here is a fun and interesting pictorial of the phones, some which you might have owned at one time and some cells that you might not have ever seen before. Each one having a few new gadgets or apps that the one before it lacked. The same goes today and what the future will bring will amaze you now and become old hat within a 6 month period.
With the introducing of the iPhone, cell phones are no longer just used for talking. They are starting to morph into mobile computers that as you will see towards the end the pictures, part of your wardrobe and/or accessories.
- Nokia Senator
- Kyocera
- Simon
- Nokia 6160
- Moto StarTac
- Sanyo 5300
- MOST OWNED PHONE TYPE
- ROKR
- RAZR
- Blackberry
Treo 180
Sidekick
Samsung-A877
Nokia Ngage
Blackberry Pearl
iPhone
EXAMPLE OF CRAZY DESIGNS
OLED WRITER
Kinetic-flexible OLED
THE FUTURE
Related articles by Zemanta
- The Motorola DynaTAC – The First Mobile Phone (gizmodo.com.au)
- When Mobile Phones Became Colourful (gizmodo.com.au)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_b.png?x-id=7fe3c88e-66fa-4958-811e-61935484ae3c)
Short URL: http://man-over-board.com/?p=7504
Posted by 
I gave up my two cell phones when I retired. Hubby has one, but I don’t. Don’t want one either. They have indeed come a very long way though. Very well done post Glenn.
Have a terrific day. Big hugs.
The Evolution Of the Cell Phone | Man Over Board http://man-over-board.com/2010/05/11/an-amazing-look-at-the-evolution-of-the-cell-phone/
LOL I actually remember that time when cellphones were humongous. Thank goodness for innovation. I don’t think I’d want to bring something like that around.
The Evolution Of the Cell Phone | Man Over Board: With the introducing of the iPhone, cell phones are no longer ju… http://bit.ly/9xTTDr
Boy we have came a long way in ten years lol
RT @ahardrain: The Evolution Of the Cell Phone | Man Over Board http://man-over-board.com/2010/05/11/an-amazing-look-at-the-evolution-of-the-cell-phone/
This one rocks.. The Evolution Of the Cell #Phone http://bit.ly/9yht8R
The Evolution Of the Cell Phone http://bit.ly/9yht8R ~Ah quem nunca viu ou teve um StarTec? ahuaha
Believe it or not the only thing I use my cell phone for is to make calls or text my daughter. It gets very little use. I wouldn’t even know what to do with an app
I love the progress and now how it can do so many other things, maps, Google, email, text, feel like it’s an extension of my office rarely without it.
Nice post.
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com
Greetings from Europe,
well, looking at *that* list, it’s no wonder iPhone was greeted the way it was… we had smartphones (that just weren’t quite as sexy as iPhone, to be fair) already quite early in 2000′s where you could open PDFs and shit… Blackberry really is primitive compared to Nokia Communicator, for instance.
Oh well, I guess this is not so much a Europe vs. America thing as it is author’s personal list. That’s maybe why the list is really full of unfamiliar phones, at least to me. Why not check out this one, btw: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
http://man-over-board.com/2010/05/11/an-amazing-look-at-the-evolution-of-the-cell-phone/
evolução!
Great one mate! Old age phones were Lol
Now with latest technologies it rocks and I’m loving it.
Thanks
I love the fact that flexible OLEDs have a faster response time than LEDs!