The Evolution of the Cell Phoneabstract From Brick to Smartphone. The cellphone turns 40 this month, and it has come a long way from the Let’s take a look back at the evolution of the omnipresent mobile phone. 1973 – The first cell phone ** ** The phone Martin Cooper designed for Motorola weighed 2.5 pounds and had a **1983 – Motorola DynaTAC 8000X ** The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was used by Gordon Gecko in the 1987 film Wall **1984 – The Nokia Mobira Talkman ** The lunchbox-sized Nokia Mobira Talkman might have been a nightmare to carry **1995 – The Motorola ** The first flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC (seen here in Clueless), was **1996 – The Nokia 8110 ** The ‘banana’ phone, the Nokia 8110, was also Neo’s phone in The Matrix (1999) **1998 – The Nokia 5110 ** Who didn’t play endless games of Snake on their Nokia 5110? A generation was **2004 – Motorola Razr ** The Motorola Razr was best known for being ultra-thin and for having a seven- **2007 – The iPhone ** And then came the game changer – the Apple iPhone reshaped the mobile phone |
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