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We use them every day. They are small. They are cheap. They can also be expensive. They are black, white, gray, hot pink, lime, red and many more. They are big. They are small. They are thick. They are heavy. The can be light, with an antenna, with a touch screen, you can surf the internet, take pictures, listen to music and even watch movies with them.

Cell phones are definitely one thing which we can’t live without. But even if we use them all the time… what is it that we really know about cell phones? How many f you have the slightest idea who invented the cell phone and when it was invented? Sure, we know how to use their features, but do we know what’s inside? A cell phone is really amazing when you think about the ways in which it has evolved from its initial form, to what it has become today.



If you even wondered who invented the cell phone, I have to tell you that the main concept goes a long way back. Douglas Ring and Rae Young were a couple of engineers working at Bell Labs back in 1947 when, after different propositions that were launched and different ideas about hexagon towers and directional antennas. Due to the lack of some resourced, the cell phone remained only at the conceptual stage until 1960. At first, the mobile phone was designed especially for vehicles and Prince Phillip from the UK was the first person to own one back in 1957 in his Aston Martin. The first automatic cell phone system was set up by Ericsson and it was released on the Swedish market in 1956. Too bad the weight of the prone was 40 kg.

Leonid Kupriyanovich was a Soviet radio engineer that designed the first portable mobile phone. It was an improvement alright: the weight dropped from 40 kg to only 3 kg.  In 1958, the “radiophone” as Kupriyanovich liked to call it was already a light-weighted gadget, as it was as light as 500g. And things have been constantly evolving, in 1959, the S&T Telephone company from Kansas used some of Motorola’s Radio Telephone equipment to offer local services to the people in the Kansas area. This was not the end. The cell phones passes though other several stages and decades until it became what it is today, a gadgets used for keeping in touch in every possible way. Even if AT&T submitter the cellular service proposal, it was not approved until 1982.


Back then, those were the zero generation mobile phones (0G) which have evolved to the 3G’s that we have today. From 40 kg to 100 grams, cell phones are now indispensable in our lives and personally I could not imagine one day without my phone. When they first appeared, cell phones were a luxury and only the business men could afford to buy them. Now the number of people that don’t own a cell phone is dropping constantly as the need for communication has increased considerably and phones are now a must have for everyone.