Advantages of Being Mobile: 40 Years of Cell Phone Technology

Carol Ann Bowler of Cambridge is seen using a miniature radiotelephone inside a car, November 1965, showing the receiver in her handbag.

Rudy Krolopp, 73, the former Motorola Design chief and designer of the world’s first mobile phone, at a news conference to mark the 20-year anniversary of mobile telephones. Krolopp is holding the very first cell phone, the "DynaTAC 8000X", left, and the first GSM mobile phone for Europe's "International 3200", in Hamburg, Germany, on 12 June 2003.

Workers place a giant pager next to an advertisement for Motorola in the form of a giant cell phone in Ho Chi Minh City Friday, 18 October 1996.

A girl with a cell phone in Moscow, 2004.

Doris Schroeder-Koepf takes pictures of her husband, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, with a mobile phone with an integrated camera in Hannover, 12 March 2003.

A young Japanese couple shows their mobile phones with matching designs among colourful cellular phones at a telephone-print shop in a Tokyo department store on 9 March 1999.

A fruit vendor walks past a mobile phone shop in Hanoi, 8 September 2002.

A pedestrian passes by a Samsung advertisement board in Seoul, South Korea, 24 November 2007.

Spectators filming a dance ensemble on their mobile phones at the Georgian culture festival Tbilisoba in the Hermitage Garden in Moscow.

A compact office in a briefcase, containing a laptop, a printer and a mobile phone, presented as a novelty at the CeBit technology fair in Hanover, 1990.

A passer-by is taking pictures of a participant in the beauty industry festival "Spring Opening Day", 2006.

A model displays a Haier mobile phone, launched in Mumbai, India, 10 February 2005. Haier launched seven different models, including the P7, which the company claimed was the world's first pen phone with a 300K pixel camera and dictaphone.

A Chinese dancer performs in front of a huge banner promoting the launch of a new mobile phone in Chongqing, 18 March 2002.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco.

A Muslim woman with a mobile phone between prayers in Jakarta on 6 November 2011.

Young residents of the city of Sinnamari with a mobile phone in French Guiana, 2007.

A girl checks messages on her mobile phone on a beach in Barcares, France.

A model using a cellular phone and wearing a plastic dress to look like a telephone keyboard for Jean-Charles de Castelbajac's 1996 spring/summer ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris, 15 October 1995.