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Cell phones are part of our everyday life but the sad truth is that we know very little about the real history of cell phones, which was the first man who made a call or which is the first cell phone model.

As most of the major events (good and bad) that took place after July 4, 1776, the mobile phone “was born” in 1973 on the greatest American land, although various concepts, plans and prototypes existed since the early twenty Century. Peak, the first inventor is the Motorola manufacturer, a company which currently is about to abandon the mobile division.

On April 3, 1973, Dr. Martin Cooper (one of the U.S. company managers), was the first earthly person who initiated a call from a mobile phone. At the other end of line was none other than Joel Engel, his big rival from Bell Labs (actually Alcatel - Lucent), another company who was looking for revolutionary technology. That discussion unfortunately had not been recorded, but there are rumors that Engel started to cry with crocodile tears when he heard the news. But he calmed down quickly and with engineers from Bell Labs he started to focus on developing mobile networks.

Since then, they worked hard to achieve all kinds of prototypes but the first cell phone designated for social use appeared only in 1983. This was the Motorola DynaTAC (model 8000x) - an "object" viewed with suspicion by people and with admiration by people passionate about technology. You could talk on this phone for maximum 30 minutes and in stand-by mode, it hardly touched 8 hours.



But not everyone could afford this mobile phone and not everyone was able to keep it in their hand. The Motorola DynaTAC (known as Zack’s phone from “Saved by the Bell”) costs $3995, and had 330 mm in lenght and weighed about 1 kg (869 grams) – like a “brick” in our days. Not to mention that the charge time was about 10 hours, much higher than the autonomy. Even if now these performances are causing hilarious reactions, do not forget that a race to perfection always starts at the bottom.

In the period between 1983 - 1989, five DynaTAC models were launched, but at the end of 1989 they were replaced by a far more engaging and powerful terminal, the MicroTAC Motorola 9800x (TAC = Total Area Coverage). The latter came with a specific loading dock and had a "flip" design with an "elegant" slider that covered the keyboard. With that slider opened, this cell phone reaches 229 mm in length, but the compact design allowed the users to keep the phone in their pockets. However, with 303 grams in weight (that's if you opt for a slim battery, thin and light) you need to have some resistant pockets.



The MicroTAC, the representative phone of '80s, was available in seven versions (models) and was sold until 1991 at prices between $ 2495 and $ 3495. Nokia fans and beyond, you’re wondering what the Finnish giant did during the mobile phone pioneering? Well, Nokia has produced commercial communications and military equipment since the early ‘60s, but their first GSM phone (Nokia 1011) was released after nine years of the onset of DynaTAC, in 1992. About Nokia 1011 is known that it has some nice sizes (195 x 60 x 45mm), unlike the Motorola “bricks”. It was functional in a 900 MHz band and the phonebook had a capacity of 99 numbers.

In 1994 it was replaced by Nokia 2100 - first Nokia who came with that famous ringtone Tune and it was the first terminal which offered data transfers, fax and SMS. The Finns hoped to sell at least 400,000 models, but Nokia 2100 has exceeded all expectations reaching the amazing number of 20 million terminals sold worldwide. However, the history of cell phones was discovered that there are a lot of unknown technologies which are waiting to be revealed. Even if the mobile phone has been invented in that early year, today we are looking to reveal new and more amazing technologies.