Evolution Of Mobile Phone Through The Years

Let's take a look way back the evolution of mobile phone through the years, it's gonna be awesome.

The phone now has a gadget such as compulsory for everyone. Just look at the people you meet on the road. Most likely a cell phone tucked in their pants pocket or shirt.
But did you know that the way the phone has come a process of evolution for 70 years? To perpetuate the site WonderHow course of evolution the cell phone.

SCR-194 (1938)

Communication tool is where it began for phones. SCR-194 and SCR-195 is the first portable AM ​​radio in the world. It was created by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. 

Tool which is seen as a walkie talkie that first weighs about 11 kg and with a range of 8 km.

SCR-300 (1940)

This tool is a replacement for SCR-195. Developed by Motorola, SCR-300 is a portable FM radio that is used by the Allies during World War II. It weighs between 14-17 kg, with a radius range of 4.8 km.

SCR-536 (1942)

Motorola manufactures 'Walkie talkie' to the U.S., as the development of the two previous communications tool. By using the AM radio technologies, SCR-536 is much lighter weight, which is only 2.27 kg with a range of 1.6 km.

MTA (1956)

Mobile System A (MTA) is a communication device made by Ericsson and is used by Sweden. It weighed 40 kg or the equivalent weight of 300 units of the iPhone.

DynaTAC (1973)

Motorola makes a prototype of portable phone called Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage (DynaTAC) as the first practical personal cell phone. 

In the picture, former Vice President of Motorola's Martin Cooper was calling competitors of Bell Labs, Joel S Engel.

DynaTAC (1983)

Ten years after the appearance of the prototype DynaTAC, Motorola began marketing this phone to the public. With weights weighing 0.9 kg, the DynaTAC working in network technologies AMPS, the first generation of analog cellular service in North America.

MicroTAC (1989)

Motorola introduces the MicroTAC, which is the first flip phone design in the world. 

This design reduces the size of the phone when not in use. With its small size. MicroTAC is also the world's first mobile phone.

StarTAC (1996)

Continuing its line of TAC, Motorola launched the first clamshell mobile phone called the StarTAC which can be folded like a clam shell. 

According to Motorola, the phone is inspired by a communication device that appears in the film series Star Trek.

Communicator (1997)

Nokia 9000 Communicator is a phone that takes the user to enter the era of smartphones. 

With its clamshell design, this phone is the first to provide an LCD screen and a full QWERTY key board.

Benefon (1999)

Geosentric is the first handset vendors to create mobile phone integrated with GPS devices. 

Not only that, the phone called Benefon is splash resistant, using greyscale, and provides a map to track the position and movement of the user.

VP-201 (1999)

In Japan, Kyocera launched the VP-201 mobile phone which is the first phone with integrated camera.

BlackBerry 5810 (2002)

RIM launches first BlackBerry device that is integrated with the phone. It is targeting the mobile professional users who need instant email service and schedule adjustments. 


The disadvantages are that these devices do not have a speaker and microphone.

iPhone (2007)

Steve Jobs started Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, a revolutionary smart phones that use touch screens at once to adopt 3G technology.

Nokia 808 Pureview (2012)

The Nokia 808 PureView has a 4-inch AMOLED display with the rather lowly resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. Spiritually succeeding the Nokia N8, it runs Nokia Belle (previously known as Symbian) and it's centered around a 1.3 GHz processor. 

While this smartphone might technically revolve around that processor, what's got the publics imagination is actually the never-before-seen 41MP multi-aspect camera sensor.

Isn't those list of the evolution of mobile phone through the years makes you all realize that technology never ceased, instead it goes faster than before.