History of mobiles phones from bricks to buttons

The first mobile phone was released to the public in the early 1980’s; the phone was called the Nordic Mobile Telephone and was released in 1981.

Up until the late 1980’s, most openly available mobile phones were too large to fit in a coat pocket, the phones were usually permanently installed in cars as a car phone due to the sheer size of the devices.

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