2006-08-29 22:44:07 · 5 answers · asked by erlick v 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
The first CONSUMER based/marketed cell phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X and it was introduced right around 1984 or 1985. It was also known as the "Brick" and only had a talk time of about 35 minutes. The cost? My friend's dad bought one when they first came out and he paid over $4400 for it. If I'm not mistaken his plan was somewhere around $1.49 per minute, probably higher.
I bought my brother one off eBay 20 years later for $20 with shipping.
Motorola had developed the cellular technology 10 or 11 years earlier. I guess it took a lot of R&D to get it ready for consumer use.
2006-08-30 08:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Serious Business 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-14 13:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Cooper talks about the first cell phone call.
April 3, 2003 marked the 30th anniversary of the first public telephone call placed on a portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper ( now chairman, CEO, and co-founder of ArrayComm Inc) placed that call on April 3, 1973, while general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. It was the incarnation of his vision for personal wireless communications, distinct from cellular car phones. That first call, placed to Cooper's rival at AT&T's Bell Labs from the streets of New York City, caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place
2006-08-29 22:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by anirudh_arrow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An italian caveman did
His name was
Rockia
2006-08-29 22:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by satnee2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EVERYONE KNOWS THIS ANSWER....IT WAS DR.CELL..aarghhh aaagghrhh from finland he also made the polaroid camera in 1954.
2006-08-29 22:51:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋