It was 13 inches tall, and fat as a brick. In the last forty years, cell phone technology has changed considerably. This animation, by Amrit Pal Singh, takes you through those years, from the ...

That animated GIF of a wonderfully curvy Coronet ... The seeds for the Relics of Technology project started when I found a brick cell phone at a thrift store in rural Oregon.

"The brick" weighed 2 pounds ... development effort in wireless and was ultimately dubbed the father of the cell phone by then-CEO Robert Galvin. Both Cooper's and Krolopp's names are on the ...

Forty years ago this month, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world's first cell phone call ... 2.5-pound phone nicknamed "the brick" and called his engineering ...

Nokia is getting in on the action with an upgraded version of one of its legendary brick phones ... device was voted the best pre-iPhone era cell phone (there was an era before iPhones??) ...

Finally, he says “cell ... phone, the DynaTac was released in 1983 and cost $3,995. (Adjusted for inflation, that’s $8,806 in today’s dollars.) It’s now affectionately known as “the ...

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he’d been ...