Tring, tring! History calling!

Remember the first ever cell phone that weighed about 1 kg (pictured to the left)? Well, we didn’t either! My first memory of a cell phone was the Nokia 8800 (what we called the Banana phone for its curved slider) and then I stopped remembering.

But the early days were rather impressive and are very well captured by PC World in this slideshow [via MSN Tech & Gadgets]. Head on over for a bit of tech history and nostalgia along the way. And don’t be surprised to see descriptions such as this one:

That phone, which measured more than a foot long, weighed almost 2 pounds, and cost $3995, ultimately became commercial available in 1983. Known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, its battery could provide 1 hour of talk time, and its memory could store 30 phone numbers.

And they called it a mobile phone! Hah!

Tags: cell phones, history, motorola, nokia, apple, palm