History of Cell Phones

The inventor of the first hand held cell phone Dyna Tac 8000X known as "the brick" was designed by Rudy Krolopp. This cell phone weighed 2 pounds and it had only a half an hour of talk per charge. Motorala CEO Martin Cooper was the person in charge of making the first phone call using this device on April 3, 1973. This phone was sold for $3,995.

The first commercial cellular network was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979.

In 1990, the United States was the first country to make a phone call from a digital phone using a 2G system technology.
Text messaging was introduced in 1980, but actually was used in 1993 by an engineering student by accident. Nokia commercialized the use of text messaging in Japan in 1995.

In 1996, the fashion phones were introduced. Motorola marketed their Star Tac phone. This lighweigh 3.1 oz. clamshel style phone, was the smallest and lightest of its time. It could be clipped to your belt.

In 1998, the blue tooth technology was introduced.

In 1999, the Blackberry was introduced. It is a wireless handheld device that supports email, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing and web browsing.

In 2000, the 3G (third generation technology) was introduced.

2002, before the T-Mobile Sidekick phone became Hollywood "it" phone, it was known as the HipTop phone. This cell provided truly mobile web browsing and email access.

Also in this year, cell phones appeared with a built-in camera.

And finally in 2005, cell phones companies were able to come up with a phone that combined the itunes from Apple technology and the best of Motorola. Today's cell phones are not only for communication purposes, but also for taking pictures, surf on the web, listen to music and many other features.