A History of Cell Phones Hefty: Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (1982)In 1973, Motorola showed off a prototype of the world's first portable cellular telephone. That phone, which measured more than a foot long,...
In 1908, U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone was issued in to Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray, Kentucky. He applied this patent to "cave radio" telephones and not directly to cellular telephony as...