By this time, cell phones had shrunk a great deal from their earliest briefcase size. But they were still about as big as a man’s shoe and several times heavier. Then Motorola took a leap ahead of the rest of the industry with the first small, lightweight, well-designed mobile phone, the MicroTAC Ultra Lite. It looked like the Star Trek Communicator, the device Captain Kirk used for giving the command, "Beam me up, Scotty." If the physical look of the phone was so different, the software that ran it surely must have a great many innovations as well.