Although it was only sold in Japan for the PHS network, Kyocera's VP-210 VisualPhone began selling for 40,000 yen or about $325 in May 1999, more than a year before the Sharp J-SH04 arrived ...

Motorola's Marty Cooper tested the first cell phone prototype on the streets of New York in 1973 His first call was to his rival at Bell Labs to break the news that they had beaten them to ...

Del Mar resident Marty Cooper, inventor of the cell phone, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation during a ...