October 15, 2013 at 10:3830 years of the first commercial call on a portable cell phone
30 years ago, on October 13, 1983, the first commercial call was made on a cell phone. The Motorola DynaTAC was used - from it ten years before that, Motorola employee Martin Cooper called AT&T to please the competitors with his success.
The first commercial call was made in Chicago by the president of Ameritech, later renamed Verizon, Bob Barnett. His addressee was the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
Weight: 1.15 kg
Parameters: 22.5 x 12.5 x 3.75 cm (without antenna)
Display: red LED
Talk time: 35 minutes
Waiting time: 8 hours
Price: $ 3,995 in 1983 (translated today - about $ 9,398.11)
Shot from The Wall Street movie, 1987
The Motorola DynaTAC prototype was created in 1973, and in 1984 the company began mass-producing the DynaTAC 8000x, which appeared in many films - including Wall Street and American Psycho. (And also, if I'm not mistaken, in the first part of “Armor of God”)
A cell phone weighing about a kilogram in 1973 was considered a huge achievement. The head of one of the departments of Bell Laboratories later noted: “It was a real triumph. At that time, we used 14-kilogram phones in cars. Their ability to hold everything needed in 1 kg was a big breakthrough. ”
Shot from the movie "American Psycho"
In this photo - Martin Cooper with the first prototype phone. 2007 photo.
The display showed the number to be dialed. Moreover, the phone was able to remember up to 30 numbers.
Over the next several decades, Motorola has reduced its phones. Remember this mod for super-thin, super-light mobile phones?
On the left is the communicator from Star Trek.
1996 Motorola StarTAC phone, the first clamshell in the world.
In January 2011, Motorola was split into two companies : Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. At the moment, Motorola Mobility is owned by Google , the deal amounted to $ 12.5 billion.
This is interesting:
Old advertising for cell phones and smartphones (from the 1980s to the end of the 2000s)
Advertising of laptop computers of the 1980s and 1990s
The first commercial call was made in Chicago by the president of Ameritech, later renamed Verizon, Bob Barnett. His addressee was the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
Motorola DynaTAC
Weight: 1.15 kg
Parameters: 22.5 x 12.5 x 3.75 cm (without antenna)
Display: red LED
Talk time: 35 minutes
Waiting time: 8 hours
Price: $ 3,995 in 1983 (translated today - about $ 9,398.11)
Shot from The Wall Street movie, 1987
The Motorola DynaTAC prototype was created in 1973, and in 1984 the company began mass-producing the DynaTAC 8000x, which appeared in many films - including Wall Street and American Psycho. (And also, if I'm not mistaken, in the first part of “Armor of God”)
A cell phone weighing about a kilogram in 1973 was considered a huge achievement. The head of one of the departments of Bell Laboratories later noted: “It was a real triumph. At that time, we used 14-kilogram phones in cars. Their ability to hold everything needed in 1 kg was a big breakthrough. ”
Shot from the movie "American Psycho"
In this photo - Martin Cooper with the first prototype phone. 2007 photo.
The display showed the number to be dialed. Moreover, the phone was able to remember up to 30 numbers.
Over the next several decades, Motorola has reduced its phones. Remember this mod for super-thin, super-light mobile phones?
On the left is the communicator from Star Trek.
1996 Motorola StarTAC phone, the first clamshell in the world.
In January 2011, Motorola was split into two companies : Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. At the moment, Motorola Mobility is owned by Google , the deal amounted to $ 12.5 billion.
This is interesting:
Old advertising for cell phones and smartphones (from the 1980s to the end of the 2000s)
Advertising of laptop computers of the 1980s and 1990s