Motorola created mobile phone history

1928: Paul V. Galvin and his brother, Joseph, incorporated Motorola's founding company -- the Galvin Manufacturing Corp. -- in Chicago.

1930s: Motorola began developing two-way radio communications equipment.

1946: Motorola communications equipment carried the first calls on Illinois Bell Telephone Co.'s new car radiotelephone service in Chicago.

1960s: Motorola was a major supplier of pre-cellular car telephones.

1973: Motorola had succeeded in producing the first working DynaTAC portable phone prototype.

1983: Motorola made history when the FCC approved the DynaTAC 8000X phone, the world's first commercial portable cell phone.

1991: Motorola demonstrated the world's first working-prototype digital cellular system and phones using the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard in Hanover, Germany.

1996: Motorola's StarTAC wearable cellular telephone was the world's smallest and lightest, weighing just 3.1 ounces.

2000: Motorola and Cisco Systems Inc. supplied the world's first commercial General Packet Radio Service, known just as GPRS, cellular network to BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom. The system also used the world's first GPRS cellular phone, the Motorola Timeport P7389i model.

2004: Motorola introduced the RAZR V3 cellular phone, an ultraslim, metal-clad, quad-band flip phone. The 13.9mm thin phone used aircraft-grade aluminum to achieve several design and engineering innovations, including a nickel-plated keypad.

2006: Motorola introduced the Ming touch screen smart phone in Asia in 2006. It used advanced handwriting software to recognize more than 10,000 handwritten characters of the Chinese alphabet.