Technology has come a long way! Today, I am salivating over the new Nokia N95 8GB phone that looks similar to the iPhone. This cell phone weighs only 4.55 oz. Compare that to the first cell phone which weighed in at 2 pounds!

The first cell phone call was placed on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, then general manager of Motorola’s Communications System Division. The call was placed to Cooper’s rival at AT&T Labs from a New York City street.

The phone only offered one half hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for almost $4,000. Remember how cool we thought Michael Douglas looked in the movie Wall Street talking on his cell phone?