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 ...

Pick up the phone — nostalgia is calling! Nokia is releasing an updated version of its classic 6310 “brick phone” two ... While many modern cell phones smash upon dropping, Nokia claims ...

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 ...

And now, with ’90s nostalgia, that cell phone is back. Called the Brick, to be fair, it at least has an actual function. It’s basically a Bluetooth speaker with a truly ridiculous backup ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- "The brick" weighed 2 pounds ... 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 ...