The Evolution of the Mobile Phone Perfectly Illustrated in One Image

Since Motorola’s senior engineer Martin Cooper made the first ever mobile phone call to a rival telecommunications company to let them know he was calling from a mobile back in 1973, mobile phones have come a long way. Motorola’s first ever mobile phone, the Dynatac 8000X which was released in 1983, weighed an impressive 1.75lb’s and stood at 13-inches tall, a far cry from the compact handheld smartphones that we’re used to today. It was Motorola that paved the way for nearly a decade until 1992 when Nokia showed up with…

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