"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 ...

the company having just released its first iPod — Nokia ruled the cell phone game. Many of Nokia’s most popular phones had a brick-like form factor that turned streamlined, grey business ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- When an arm of the World Health Organization put cell phones on its list of possible carcinogens, it's hard to not take notice. Frankly, since the first brick cell phones ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerns about the impact of social media are driving demand for old-school Nokia brick-like handsets, now known as feature phones. If Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab and Samsung don’t find a way ...

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 ...