Size does matter: the history of the cell phone in millimeters and inches
On April 3, 1975, engineer Martin Cooper, Motorola's corporate director of Research and Development, made the first cell phone call. Cooper had created the Motorola DynaTac, a phone that weighed two pounds and was the size of a shoebox.
For this, its components had to be small and light, and with that vision the large telecommunications transnationals launched into a technological race in the following decades, until cell phones were within the reach of people and They will go into their pockets.
And although we think that with the new smartphones this race for small mobiles had ended, in 2017 the Vodafone company launched the smallest mobile in the world: the Zanco Tiny T1, with 46.7 millimeters in length and just a few 13 grams of weight. But this was actually an exaggeration.
With a large screen it was possible to carry out tasks that we would do on the PC, see more audiovisual material, without neglecting video games .
This is how the first iPhone model was born in 2007, when Steve Jobs revolutionized the smartphone market that until then was divided between mobile telephony and digital agendas where the leading brands were Nokia, Ericsson and Blackberry.
This first iPhone had a 3.5-inch touch screen, and although it seems small to us now, at that time it was the largest of a mobile phone since it covered almost the entire device. This innovative design marked the path of mobile telephony to the present, which over the years has been adding inches as new trends emerge.
In 2014, with the arrival of the iPhone 6, the jump in the size of the front screen was quantitative: up to 4.5 inches, a trend that other companies were quick to imitate.
Today the iPhone Xs Max measures 157.5 millimeters, only surpassed by the iPhone 8 Plus which is Apple's largest phone at 158.4 millimeters high by 78.1 wide. But how much longer will they continue to grow? The answer is uncertain, but let us know your opinion in the comments section.
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