Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the first cell phone, poses with the DynaTAC8000X and Motorola's new Razr cell phone in Schaumburg, Ill. M. Spencer Green / AP April 11, 2005, 6:55 PM EDT / Source ...

The phone is generally pretty low-tech for 2021. The display is still small at 2.8 inches, though that’s still a full inch larger than the original 6310’s (and the new one is full color).

CHICAGO -- "The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Clunky and overpriced? Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to b… ...

Finally, he says “cell phone” and hefts a clumsy, off-white monster onto the desk. It’s a flawless sight-gag—you’ve been inside a long time, Gekko— and a nod to the original Wall Street .

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 showed up more than ...

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 ...

Smartphone makers will soon face an unlikely competitor. Concerns about the impact of social media are driving demand for old-school Nokia brick-like handsets, now known as feature phones. If ...