In Pictures: Phones on screen
In Pictures: Global phones
Engineer Martin Cooper holds the Motorola DynaTAC phone, the world's first commercial handheld cellular phone, and his current mobile phone during a news conference in Oviedo, Spain, in 2009. Eloy Alonso/Reuters/File
Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the first cellphone, poses with Motorola's first cellular phone, the DynaTAC8000X, and their Razr cell phone in Schaumburg, Ill., in 2005. Dubbed "the brick,' the DynaTAC weighed in at 2 pounds, sold for $3,995, and would give you about a half-hour of talk time before recharging. M. Spencer Green/AP/File
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova looks at a mobile phone which was produced about 20 years ago during a promotion event for Motorola in Osaka, Japan, in 2005. Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Newscom/File
The Motorola StarTrac sold for $1,000 in 1997. It was the size of a credit card, weighed 3.1 ounces, and provided one hour of talk time from its small but powerful lithium ion battery. H. Lorrenau Jr./Newscom/File
Motorola's V60 cellular phone (l.) was enormously popular during the 2001 gift-buying season. Also pictured, from left, are the StarTac 7858, the V.70, the T 720 and, lower left, the V.120c. Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune/Newscom/File
A worker at CollectiveGood in Tucker, Ga., sorts through old cell phones and cell phone batteries for recycling in 2005. John Bazemore/AP/File
Models show Motorola's 'Razr2 Luxury Edition' cell phones during a promotion event in Seoul in 2008. The phone featured 18K gold-plated accents, a soft-touch snakeskin texture on the back, and an ultra-slim design. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Newscom/File
The once wildly-popular Blackberry displays the Microsoft homepage in a downtown Toronto office in 2007. J.P. Moczulski/The Canadian Press/AP/File
A women texts on a cell phone while driving, an activity that is illegal in many states. Zuma Press/Newscom/File
President Obama's Senior Adviser David Axelrod (l.) and then-Press Secretary-designate Robert Gibbs (c.) check e-mail on their phone devices as then-White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel listens to President-elect Barack Obama give a news conference in Washington in 2009. Charles Dharapa/AP/File
Jeremi McManus reads a book while waiting in line to purchase the Apple iPhone 3GS at the company's retail store in San Francisco in 2009. Robert Galbraith/Reuters/File
Steve Jobs holds an iPhone 4 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., in 2010. Paul Sakuma/AP/File
From left are shown smart phones that function as mini computers, boasting e-mail and internet capabilities and versatile 'apps': the iPhone 4, the HTD Droid Incredible, and the Motorola Droid X. AP/File
Google CEO Eric Schmidt takes a photo of President Barack Obama with Google's new smart phone, the Nexus One, during the House Democratic Caucus retreat at the US Capitol on Jan. 14 in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP
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